Opis: A Northern Lily - Harrison Joanna

Excerpt from A Northern Lily: Five Years of an Uneventful Life

'On the Home farm some watch the ploughman's furrow,
And talk of bullocks and the price of oats.'

'A Quarter-Past five,' Said Elsie Ross, 'and no post yet.'

The letters at Rossie were usually brought in with the kettle at afternoon tea-time - the only post in the day, strange as it may seem to the southern reader.

'Not that I expect anything - but - here it is - and - yes! there is one for me. Not from Fraulein - from - I don't know whom.'

She opened the letter, which was rather long, and adorned with numerous dashes, flourishes, and points of exclamation; and read it thoughtfully.

' - to leave your Scottish home, and find a resting-place under our roof, where, I need not say, you will receive a true Welcome!'

'To leave my Scottish home!' said Elsie to herself. 'I won't, - and yet, perhaps -'

'Elsie, do you want to see the new bull' said a gruff, an exceedingly gruff, voice in the passage.

'I do, papa,' said Elsie, jumping up and thrusting the letter into her pocket. 'Cant give my mind to it now, but he'll need to be consulted. I'll speak to him at dinner; at least, I will if he likes the bull.'

Rossie was a small old-fashioned house on the northeast coast of Scotland. Very lonely; for, except in the little fishing town of St. Ethernans the Rosses had no neighbours within ten miles.

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Szczegóły: A Northern Lily - Harrison Joanna

Nazwa: A Northern Lily Five Years of an Uneventful Life (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Harrison Joanna
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781332533756
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 416
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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