I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter TalesIn those west-country parishes where but a few years back...
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Author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur,1863-1944
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Language: English
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I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

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I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur,1863-1944
Format: eBook
Language: English

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales

In those west-country parishes where but a few years back the feast of Christmas Eve was usually prolonged with cake and cider, "crowding," and "geese dancing," till the ancient carols ushered in the day, a certain languor not seldom pervaded the services of the Church a few hours later. Red eyes and heavy, young limbs hardly rested from the Dashing White Sergeant and Sir Roger, throats husky from a plurality of causesall these were recognised as proper to the season, and, in fact, of a piece with the holly on the communion rails. On a dark and stormy Christmas morning as far back as the first decade of the century, this languor was neither more nor less apparent than usual inside the small parish church of Ruan Lanihale, although Christmas fell that year on a Sunday, and dancing should, by rights, have ceased at midnight. The building stands high above a bleak peninsula on the South Coast, and the congregation had struggled up with heads slanted sou'-west against the weather that drove up the Channel in a black fog. Now, having gained shelter, they quickly lost the glow of endeavour, and mixed in pleasing stupor the humming of the storm in the tower above, its intermittent onslaughts on the leadwork of the southern windows, and the voice of Parson Babbage lifted now and again from the chancel as if to correct the shambling pace of the choir in the west gallery. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 14206
Author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
Release Date: Nov 29, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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