Skirmishing (Classic Reprint)
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Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Skirmishing It was the evening of the last Sunday in August; until after Whitsunday of the next year, there would be no more six o´clock services in the largest room of the white house on the top of the common. The curate and the rector´s eldest daughter had walked back to the rectory together, over the fields and through the hop gardens; Maud Greatorex had a small bunch of early hops in her hand. Walter Escott, hot and wearied as he was by the duties of the day, lingered on the doorstep, his eyes fixed on the home view before him. Not much wonder that he did pause, to enjoy the sight of the closing day. Low on the western sky was a space of luminous light, above which hovered little fleecy clouds with edges of purest gold color; and higher still, was that tint which is not green nor yet blue - clearer, more transparent than any hue we can name, and peering through it a star, the first harbinger of night. The light was all behind the church and its broad old yews; the church was of a uniform ashy grey, the trees almost black. Caractacus, the roan pony, stood in a ruminating attitude in the glebe meadow, surrounded by a host of poultry intent on going to roost. A knot of sheep were huddled together under the poplar-trees, the quivering of the restless leaves quite visible against the radiant sky; occasionally there was a distant dog´s bark, or a few notes from some garrulous bird, before it decided to put its head under its wing: no other sounds. "You look very tired, Walter," said Maud. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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