What the shepherd saw
"The genial Justice of the Peace - now, alas, no more - who made himself responsible for the facts of this story, used to begin in the good old-fashioned way with a bright moonlight night and a mysterious figure, an excellent stroke for an opening, even to this day, if well followed up. Les mer
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"The genial Justice of the Peace - now, alas, no more - who made himself responsible for the facts of this story, used to begin in the good old-fashioned way with a bright moonlight night and a mysterious figure, an excellent stroke for an opening, even to this day, if well followed up. The Christmas moon (he would say) was showing her cold face to the upland, the upland reflecting the radiance in frost-sparkles so minute as only to be discernible by an eye near at hand. This eye, he said, was the eye of a shepherd lad, young for his occupation, who stood within a wheeled hut of the kind commonly in use among sheep-keepers during the early lambing season, and was abstractedly looking through the loophole at the scene without."
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cappelen Damm
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9788202389086
- Utgave
- 1. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
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