The Widening Circle: A Chronicle (Classic Reprint)

ISBN-10: 1332530397
ISBN-13: 9781332530397
Series: The Widening Circle
Pages: 310
Language: English
Published: 2015-08-09
Author: Marchioness Townshend

Description

Excerpt from The Widening Circle: A Chronicle The first home that I remember was a long, low white house, with a sloping lawn in front leading down to a stream - beyond the stream a meadow with twelve tall poplar trees, like soldiers stiff and standing to attention, at the far end. At sunset, silhouetted against the sky, they looked as if they were cut out of black velvet. At the back of the house there was an old-fashioned kitchen garden, a rick yard, and a duck pond. Between the rick yard and the garden, a road ran up into the woods. My sister and I called it "Adventure Lane." In this pleasant house lived my maternal grandfather and grandmother, and for the first few years of our lives we lived there with them. My sister was two years younger than I. We were inseparable - we played the same games, adored books, and made up splendid adventures, in which the duck pond was a wide ocean on which we sailed little ships of paper, and the rick yard with its golden hay and straw stacks, a land of rich treasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.