Herself (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Herself A fast-darkening December day, and a little Englishwoman the solitary figure on a vast and melancholy stage, the royal gardens of Versailles. The note of the scene was faded splendour: above, where the winter sunset died strangled among level clouds, with barely an effort for life, still less for beauty: below, where long-accumulated damp dripped from the trees on ranks of statue and fountain, - frivolous, beautiful, profane, and all of wasteful marble. They looked piteous enough, those fair, half-clad shapes of nymph and goddess, seeming to shrink for mere comfort into the shelter of the serried woods. They needed encouragement in these dull democratic times to flaunt as they had of old, and encouragement they had none. Their customary admirers passed them by, lifting the furs about their chins or turning up the collars of their coats, as they hurried homeward fromtheir afternoon´s occupation, an inspection of the halffrozen lake. The splendours of Louis Quatorze´s waterworks were good for naught, in these worthy folks opinion, if not to give them skating; and in the late contention of cold and rain, rain had still too evidently the upper hand. 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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