Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4

Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4

Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are marked like this in the text. The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. A list of amendments is at the end of the text. The whole of the next day was occupied by Donna Clara, to whom letter-writing was a rare, troublesome, and momentous task, in reading over and correcting her answer to her husbands letter; in which examination she found so much to correct, interline, alter, modify, expunge, and new-model, that finally Donna Claras epistle very much resembled the work she was now employed in, namely, that of overcasting a piece of tapestry wrought by her grandmother, representing the meeting of king Solomon and the queen of Sheba. The new work, instead of repairing, made fearful havock among the old; but Donna Clara went on, like her countryman at Mr Peters puppet-show, playing away (with her needle) in a perfect shower of back-strokes, fore-strokes, side-thrusts, and counter-thrusts, till not a figure in the tapestry could know himself again. The faded face of Solomon was garnished with a florid beard of scarlet silk (which Fra Jose at first told her she must rip out, as it made Solomon very little better than Judas) that made him resemble a boiled scallop. The fardingale of the queen of Sheba was expanded to an enormous hoop, of whose shrunk and pallid wearer it might be truly said, Minima est pars sui. The dog that, in the original tapestry, stood by the spurred and booted heel of the oriental monarch, (who was clad in Spanish costume), by dint of a few tufts of black and yellow satin, was converted into a tiger,a transformation which his grinning fangs rendered as authentic as heart could wish. And the parrot perched on the queens shoulder, with the help of a train of green and gold, which the ignorant mistook for her majestys mantle, proved a very passable peacock. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 53688
Author: Maturin, Charles Robert
Release Date: Dec 7, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English