Название: The Guests Of Hercules
Автор: C. N. Williamson
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 4064066211929
isbn:
A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson
The Guests Of Hercules
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066211929
Table of Contents
"Mary was a goddess on a golden pinnacle. This was life; the wine of life" | Frontispiece | |
FACING PAGE | ||
Mary Grant | 22 | |
"'I can't promise!' she exclaimed. 'I've never wanted to marry.'" | 286 | |
"'It was Fate brought you—to give you to me. Do you regret it?'" | 398 |
I
THE GUESTS OF HERCULES
Long shadows of late afternoon lay straight and thin across the garden path; shadows of beech trees that ranged themselves in an undeviating line, like an inner wall within the convent wall of brick; and the soaring trees were very old, as old perhaps as the convent itself, whose stone had the same soft tints of faded red and brown as the autumn leaves which sparsely jewelled the beeches' silver.
A tall girl in the habit of a novice walked СКАЧАТЬ