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Excerpt from The Story of Sibylle

A Beautiful day in the month of August was drawing to its close. From the bells of the small, but solidly built church of Frias, which stands on the summit of a steep cliff, on the eastern coast of the Norman peninsula, rang out a peal of merry sound. From the open doors a number of peasants, dressed in their Sunday costumes, were making their way into the churchyard. They appeared to hail with great satisfaction the sight of a Norman nurse in sumptuous apparel, who had just presented herself on the threshold of the church porch, soothing to sleep behind the wide wings of her coif a child enveloped in rich baptismal robes. The crowd opened a passage for this important personage, who, from time to time, condescended to suspend her triumphal march and to raise the veil which covered the child, so as to afford an occasional glimpse of her precious charge to the group of interested matrons that surrounded her. The nurse was followed by two domestics in black livery, carrying two heavy wallets, which attracted the exclusive attention of the less sentimental portion of the public. Afterwards, the cur, still wearing his stole, came out of the church, and with an air of business said something to the domestics, who quickly went forward, the crowd hastily following. In a few moments the cur, a stout, middle-aged man, whose features bore the impress of an honest simplicity, was left alone in the little churchyard; and from a distance could be heard, mingled with the sound of the waves dashing against the shore, the cries of the children on the borders of the heath, scrambling for their share of the customary bounty. At the same time the church-bells ceased to ring out their joyous chimes, and the simple edifice resumed, in the solitude, the character of rigidity and melancholy which the ocean seems to cast back upon all that it approaches.

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Nazwa: The Story of Sibylle (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Feuillet Octave
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330318591
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 142
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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