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Книга по требованию: The Last of the Fairies

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A Christmas Tale (Classic Reprint)

Вес: 0.11 кг.
Год издания: 2015
Страниц: 58 Переплет: мягкая обложка
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Excerpt from The Last of the Fairies: A Christmas Tale

There was an old house near Worcester on the very highest part of the hill, which is not very high after all. It was not a gentleman's house, nor a farmhouse, nor a cottage. Heaven knows what it had been in former years. It was nothing at all in A. D. 1651, but a moderate sized brick building, lined with old wainscot, with broken windows and latchless doors, and one portion of it a great deal taller than the other.

There were eyes in the upper room of the tallest part of the old house; and to them was exposed an exceedingly beautiful scene, such as is rarely beheld, except in the vale of the Severn. Worcester, with its walls, and gates, and churches, and sunny fields, and pleasant places round; and the wide valley studded with little knolls, and monticules covered with turf still green, and plumed with feathery trees. It was a pleasant and a cheerful sight, - a sort of fairy scene; and indeed the rings left by the feet of the Good People, in their merry moonlight dances, attested their frequent revels in the meadows and under the trees.

But there were other objects besides those which nature's hand had formed that gave additional cheerfulness to the scene. On both banks of the Severn, the eyes gazing from that high window could discern colours flaunting in the light wind, banners tossed about, and plumes, and gay dresses, and glittering arms; so that in that part of the landscape, as a cloud or two passed over the sun, the effect was like that of rapid light and shade sweeping across a garden of flowers. And merry notes were there too: the fife, and the drum, and the clarion, rising up from below, softened and entendered by the air and the distance. The bells of the cathedral chimed cheerfully, and altogether it was
a pleasant scene to look upon, and these were merry sounds to hear.

About ten of the clock, a horseman, followed by two or three others, spurred up from the bank of the Severn, towards that house upon the hill. He came gaily along at a good quick canter, and his horse was a fine one, and well caparisoned. His bearing, too, was firm and soldier-like: but when one saw his face nearer, although he could not have counted more than five or six and thirty years, there seemed to be traces of many cares and anxieties upon his countenance, as well, perhaps, as a certain degree of constitutional melancholy, not to say gloom. It was a very grave face - very grave, indeed, yet high and noble in expression, with a tall straight forehead, somewhat broader, perhaps, at the top of the temples than over the brow.

Some servants came round from the back of the house as he approached, and ran to hold his horse and his stirrup. He sprang lightly to the ground, and walked into the house, saying, "Take the basket from Matthews there behind me, and bring it up. Take care that you don't break the wine bottles, for there is but little to be had at Worcester. The Puritans have drank it all up in a very godly manner;" and mounting the old stairs as he spoke, he ran rather than walked up to the higher chamber. There was an embrace for each of the two persons it contained - a lady of seven or eight and twenty years of age, still in her full loveliness, and a little girl of nine or ten, exceedingly beautiful, and very like her mother. Their faces were full of affection towards him who came; but yet there could not be a greater contrast than between the expression of his countenance and theirs. Cheerful hope and glad expectation was upon the face of the girl and her mother, and melancholy thought upon his.

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