Suddenly the notes of the deep-laboring organ burst upon the ear,falling with doubled and redoubled intensity,and rolling,as it were,huge billows of sound. How well do their volume and grandeur accord with this mighty building! …And now they rise in trium...[继续阅读]

    A girl in a plain,neat blue dress entered the room. She was a small,graceful girl of about twenty-five,pretty and brisk,with the air of one accustomed to look after herself in a difficult world. Her eyes were clear and steady,her mouth sensitive but firm,...[继续阅读]

    Large flocks of wild geese were seen passing over the country,which hovered,for a time,around the hidden sheet of water,apparently searching for a resting-place; and then,on finding themselves excluded by the chill covering,would soar away to the north,fi...[继续阅读]

    I struck her open-handed across the face. I had meant-some last calm intention of my mind had meant-to make it no more than a slap,but my body was speaking faster than my brain,and the blow caught her on the side of the ear and knocked her half out of bed...[继续阅读]

    This tower,a greatgirthed cylinder of ancient brick,was little superior in height to the other buildings of the Castle,which lay clustered beyond it;but it had the character of Dutch grandeur,a superb austerity,an aloof composure,and the eye was held by i...[继续阅读]

    Within was a comely boy,tanned and brown with sturdy outdoor sports and exercises,whose clothing was all of lovely silks and satins,shining with jewels; at his hip a little jeweled sword and dagger;dainty buskins on his feet,with red heels; and on his hea...[继续阅读]

    The cell was such a one as a convict would now disdain to inhabit. A low lean-to roof;the slates and rafters unceiled; the stone walls and floor unplastered; ill-lighted by a hand-broad window,unglazed,and closed with a shutter at night. A truss of straw ...[继续阅读]

    No hill,no tree,no rise of any sort,indeed,cut off the sky from this earth.The earth lay flat and pressed down around its circular edge by the weight of the sky,heavy and metalblue by day,and star-sprinkled steel by night. The sky was infinitely more impo...[继续阅读]

    The moon was low in the sky over the pastureland; the face of it was scarred and scuffed where it had just torn up out of the snarl of scrub oak and madrone trees on the horizon....[继续阅读]

    A good-sized room,it was really made for bathing in,was made to get wet,a concrete floor sloping towards a drain in one corner. Except for a large hanging mirror and a wooden table,it held nothing but a huge old zinc bath,the sides of which were streaked ...[继续阅读]