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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. Waking, the Faun was silent, and the nightingales, if they were not silent, had all their voices drowned in the loud chorus of all the other birds, which had been sound asleep all night, and now fluttered into joyousness and movement, with the coming of the day, amongst the myrtle and the ilex leaves in the monastic gardens up yonder upon the Golden Hill. Waking, I woke cramped, of course, and cold, and with the smell of the dying lampwick in my nostrils, and the broad rosy flush of the sky like the glory of the last judgment above my head. Waking, I wondered a moment, then looked up at my own window, where the beanflowers were, and remembered why I was there, and thus, with Pales crouching in her straw and yawning, and the fountain so near to us both. Waking, I yawned like Pales, and shook myself, and dipped my head in a pailful of the fountain-water, and looked, as I always look at daybreak, down the beautiful golden surface of the river, where it is all so calm and stirless, and the great black shadows lie so still, and the sails of the boats droop idle, and the ruined temples shine golden in the morning light. Everyone still was sleeping. It was not yet five by the clocks. Sweet clear-toned bells were pealing from the churches down the shores; and they and the call of a fisherman setting his girella in the sweep of the current, and the murmurs of the water rippling and falling, and the song of the thrushes and the woodlarks in the thickets, were the only sounds there were. The day was still so young that no one was astir; I sat down and stitched at those big boots of the butcher; but very soon I saw Ersilia with a mop in her hand, and a pail; she came to get the fountain water. "Your precious waif and stray is in high fever," she said to me, with that pleasure in bad...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154322019
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154322017
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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