| Author: | Sabine Baring-gould | ISBN: | 9788822867841 |
| Publisher: | Sabine Baring-gould | Publication: | November 22, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sabine Baring-gould |
| ISBN: | 9788822867841 |
| Publisher: | Sabine Baring-gould |
| Publication: | November 22, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
ONE grey, uncertain afternoon in November, when the vapour-laden skies were without a rent, and the trailing clouds, without a fringe, were passing imperceptibly into drizzle, that thickened with coming night, when the land was colourless, and the earth oozed beneath the tread, and the sullen sea was as lead—on such a day, at such a time of day, a woman wandered through Seaton, then a disregarded hamlet by the mouth of the Axe, picking up a precarious existence by being visited in the summer by bathers.
ONE grey, uncertain afternoon in November, when the vapour-laden skies were without a rent, and the trailing clouds, without a fringe, were passing imperceptibly into drizzle, that thickened with coming night, when the land was colourless, and the earth oozed beneath the tread, and the sullen sea was as lead—on such a day, at such a time of day, a woman wandered through Seaton, then a disregarded hamlet by the mouth of the Axe, picking up a precarious existence by being visited in the summer by bathers.
