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Far Off Things

Far Off Things

Machen, Arthur

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1979108854
ISBN13: 9781979108850
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 14 2017
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Excerpt s golden with the light of the leaping flames. And those within can hear the rain dashing upon shutter and upon closed door, and the fire hisses now and again as stray drops fall down the chimney; and the great wind shakes the trees and goes roaring down the hillside to the valley and moans and mutters about the housetop. A man will leave his place, snug in shelter, in the deepest glow of the fire, and go out for a moment and open but a little of the door in the porch and see all the world black and wild and wet, and then come back to the light and heat and thank God for his home, wondering whether any are still abroad on such a night of tempest. Looking back on my native country as I first remember it, I have often regretted that I was not born say twenty or thirty years earlier. I should then have seen more of a singular social process, which I can only call the Passing of the Gentry. In my father's parish this had taken place very long before my day, or his either. Indeed, I am not quite sure

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