Sharrow (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hutten, Baroness von) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Sharrow Of course, the staircase, with its broad, polished balustrade, and the dizzy curves of its immense length, was a thing of mystery and glory to Sandy. To climb up to the balustrade, at the very top of the house, just outside Cook´s room (otherwise known as the Witch´s Cave), adjust yourself nicely on your stomach, paw your person into at first slow, then ever-increasing motion, and, disregarding the pressure of buttons on sensitive parts, fly giddily down, flight after flight, breathless, terrified, full to the brim of thrill and splendour - this was life. Otherwise, 27 Guelph Square was a dull house. It was possessed, Sandy knew, of several noteworthy features, such as Adam´s ceilings, and a niche painted by Angelica Kaufmann; but features never interest children: it is the expression, whether of people or of horses, that counts with them. And the expression of Twenty-seven was one of resigned, middle-aged, fat dullness. It was even conceivable to the red-headed little boy´s imagination that in its youth the house had been slimmer and taller; that advancing age had spread it, as it had spread Aunt Martha Timlow. It also had a strange smell that never changed. Grown people had been known, on discreet approach to the subject, to deny the smell; but grown people are proverbially short-nosed. Sandy, always given to mental classification, decided that Twenty-seven smelt of damp, and boiled vegetables, and three o´clock in the afternoon - the loneliest hour in the twenty-four. 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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