Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story

Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story

Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian StoryIt was the night of Midsummer Eve. Ol came forth from the white-walled...
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Author: Deledda, Grazia,1871-1936
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Language: English
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Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story

Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story

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Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story

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Author: Deledda, Grazia,1871-1936
Format: eBook
Language: English

Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story

It was the night of Midsummer Eve. Ol came forth from the white-walled Cantoniera[1] on the Mamojada road, and hurried away across the fields. She was fifteen, well-grown and beautiful, with very large, very bright, feline eyes of greenish grey, and a sensuous mouth of which the cleft lower lip suggested two ripe cherries. She wore a red petticoat and stiff brocade bodice sustaining and defining her bosom; from the red cap tied under her prominent chin, issued two braids of glossy black hair twisted over her ears. This hair-dressing and the picturesque costume gave the girl an almost Oriental grace. Her fingers were heavily ringed, and she carried long streamers of scarlet ribbon, with which to "sign the flowers of St John," that is, to mark those bunches of mullein, thyme, and asphodel which she must pick to-morrow at dawn for the compounding of charms and drugs. True, even were the signing omitted, there was small danger of anyone's touching Ol's selected plants; the fields round the Cantoniera, where she lived with her father and her little brothers, were completely deserted. Only one tumble-down house was in sight, emerging from a field of corn like a rock out of a green lake. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 63962
Author: Deledda, Grazia
Release Date: Dec 5, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Wylde, Katharine, 1854-

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