The Merry Men
Book Excerpt: ...elshelf and the three-cornered spittoons, filled with sea-shells instead of sand, on the floor; with the bare stone walls and the bare wooden floor, and the three patchwork rugs that were of yore its sole adornment - poor man's patchwork, the like of it unknown in cities, woven with homespun, and Sunday black, and sea-cloth polished on the bench of rowing. The room, like the house, had been a sort of wonder in that country-side, it was so neat and habitable; and to see it now, shamed by these incongruous additions, filled me with indignation and a kind of anger. In view of the errand I had come upon to Aros, the feeling was baseless and unjust; but it burned high, at the first moment, in my heart.'Mary, girl,' said I, 'this is the place I had learned to call my home, and I do not know it.''It is my home by nature, not by the learning,' she replied; 'the place I was born and the place I'm like to die in; and I neither like these changes, nor the way they came, nor that which came with them. I wClose...
Yazar | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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Yayın Evi | Independently published |
HACHETTE LIVRE-BNF İtalyanca Outlook Verlag Emily Grace Leopold Classic Library H. G. Wells Independently Published; Illustrated basım İspanyolca G.A. Henty Independently published Almanca Salzwasser-Verlag GmbH Kolektif J B SBoon F Scott Fitzgerald İngilizce Fransızca Türkçe
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Baskı Detayları
Yazar | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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İsbn 13 | 979-8676178437 |
Yayın Evi | Independently published |
De olduğu gibi | B08KFWM7JK |
tarafından gönderildi The Merry Men | 1 Ekim 2020 |