The Maternity of Harriott Wicken (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Maternity of Harriott Wicken The solid chairs, the square table, and worn carpet were just old enough to be depressing. But had the furniture of the Five Yew parlour dated from the classicism of Queen Anne, or been contemporary with the house, which was late Tudor, it would have been all the same to Rosalie Wicken. Evidences of her taste, weak hints of what she would do, given opportunity, existed in the crochet antimacassars which sprawled across the chair backs, in a poor ornament or so under a glass shade, and in the incongruous long white curtains at the windows. These windows were wide and shallow, with small square panes set in lead, and generous inside ledges on which to stand flower-pots. But there were no glowing geraniums or drooping fuchsias at Rosalie´s casements; only a couple of plaster figures under glass - of Christ and the Virgin. There was a window at each end of the long, low-pitched room. They made an undesirable cross-light; young Mrs. Wicken had not considered that, but complained peevishly of constant draught, and padded the chinks with strips of list and scarlet-covered sand-bags. She was nearly always cold. In front the land was rough pasture: big, undulating stretches of brownish-green, blotched here and there by cows, and shut in by a rim of watchful hills. These hills were violet, and seemed to brood over the house, with its yellow plaster and grey beams, that night - Mrs. Gatley said it meant rain. 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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