Love’s Pilgrimage, A Novel
本书摘录:
Part 1. Loves Entanglement
Part 1. Loves Entanglement - Book 1. The Victim
_ PART I. LOVES ENTANGLEMENT BOOK I. THE VICTIM
It was in a little woodland glen, with a streamlet tumbling through it. She sat with her back to a snowy birch-tree, gazing into the eddies of a pool below; and he lay beside her, upon the soft, mossy ground, reading out of a book of poems. Images of joy were passing before them; and there came four lines with a picture--
"Hard by, a cottage-chimney smokes,
From betwixt two aged oaks,
Where Corydon and Thyrsis, met,
Are at their savory dinner set."
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"Ah!" said she. "I always loved that. Let us be Corydon and Thyrsis!"
He smiled. "They were both of them men," he said.
"Let us change it," she responded--"just between ourselves!"
"Very well--Corydon!" said he.
Then, after a moment‘s thought, she added, "But we didn‘t have the cottage."
"No," said he--"nor even the dinner!"
Section 1. It was the Highway of Lost Men. They shiver
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