A Fluttered Dovecote

A Fluttered Dovecote

You will excuse me for a moment? I must take another sheet of paperI, Laura Bozerne, virgin and martyr, of Chester Square, Belgraviafor that last sheet was all spotted with tears, and when I applied my handkerchief, and then the blotting-paper, the glaze was gone and the ink ran. Ce nest que le premier pas qui cote, the French say, but it is not true. However, I have made up my mind to write this history of my sufferings, so to begin. Though what the world would call youngeighteenI feel so oldah! so oldand my life would fill volumesthick volumeswith thrilling incidents; but a natural repugnance to publicity forces me to confine myself to the adventures of one single year, whose eventful hours were numbered, whose days were one chaos of excitement or rack of suspense. How are the scenes brought vividly before my minds eye as I turn over the leaves of my poor blotted diary, and recognise a tear blister here, and recall the blistering; a smear there; or find the writing illegible from having been hastily closed when wet, on account of the prying advance of some myrmidon of tyranny when the blotting-paper was not at hand. Faces too familiar rise before me, to smile or frown, as my associations with them were grave or gay. Now I shuddernow I thrill with pleasure; now it is a frown that contracts my brow, now a smile curls my lip; while the tears, Oh, ye tears!by the way, it is irrelevant, but I have the notes of a poem on tears, a subject not yet hackneyed, while it seems to me to be a theme that flows welltears, fears, leers, jeers, and so on. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 36873
Author: Fenn, George Manville
Release Date: Jul 27, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932