Rumor (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Sheppard, Elizabeth Sara) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Rumor It was a mid-August evening, warm and cloudless, and very dusty on a certain high road in England, along "whose foot-path Were pressing two travellers, a Woman and a youth. The way Was monotonously bounded on one side by a long wall, enclosing shrubberies pertaining to a retired manufacturer, who had found it very easy to plant trees, but impossible to force from them prematurely the solemn splendors of profound anoestral shades. Lamps at regular distances showed the road onwards straight and unwinding within the sight, and the view across the road, by daylight a breadth of pasture, deep green or clover-flush, now seemed a purple flat, over which the soft Wind wandered, each breath heaving with stolen fragrances, or laden still more heavily With the distant thunder of the tram, and the diminished, wailful shriek of its guardian monster. The wayfaress must have been weary, for before they reached the angle of the Wall, they both stopped, and the woman sat down to rest on the bank, which, spotted with scanty grass, half choked With dust, sloped to the dustier road. She said some words to her companion, and he nodded for reply, and then stood on beside her, with his large hat, of a somewhat outlandish form, slouched Over his brows, and his right foot beating constantly on the ground. Presently a water-cart - strange spectacle after sunset upon so lone a road - creaked slowly by, scattering its broad stream over the hissing dust It was scarcely out of sight when a carriage followed rt, Seen by the light of its own lamps, and whose driver, steeds, and occupants alike received the benefit of the cooled and moistened track. It was going at frill speed, and in another instant would have passed the travellers, when its course was arrested by the youth himself, who stepped into the road, and walked full pace towards the horses; thereby causing the conscientious coachman to pull them up, much more on account of their fresh and timid blood, than for fear of running over a human being in a slouched hat, who had the further audacity to advance to the window as the carriage stopped, and to tap upon the glass, Which Was up then, but dashed down in another moment. "Who are you, and what do you want?" inquired a lady, whose spirited tones betrayed not the least alarm, though her only companion was another lady. The youth bowed, or rather nodded, then raised his heed which had been sunk Upon his breast, and east a-peering glance on both those fair faces. The hat Was dragged off after that serutiny, and a very lowly though awkward recognition followed in a bow. Ho fumblod with one hand a little, and at length produced a letter. "I wish to know where these people live," said he in broken English. "To Whom then is it addressed?" asked the elder lady, and she took the letter in her hand, and read the superscription by the light of a lamp hanging from the carriage top. For these ladies Whenever so travelling together, did not waste their. The When not speaking they studied or read to gether, and were in all respects like devotedly attached sisters, except that they were mother and daughter. "What a singular - extraordinary coincidence - why Elizabeth, this letter is for us; and the Writing too is the old scrawl, Schenk´s hieroglyphic - who is to Make it out?" " Let me look, mamma." And the two heads touched one another, bending over the letter. They spelled, smiled, laughed together as though no one else were by. "The letter is for you then, lady, as you open it," said the youth, who was still standing close to the window, and looking in frill upon them; thus placed, however, not seeming rude, if his behavior Were so. Now he spoke German. The lady who had ad
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