A Case of Conscience

By Dowson, Ernest

Book Id: WPLBN0000628306
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Case of Conscience
Author:	Dowson, Ernest
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: IT was in Brittany, and the apples were already acquiring a ruddier, autumnal tint, amid their greens and yellows, though Autumn was not yet; and the country lay very still and fair in the sunset which had befallen, softly and suddenly as is the fashion there. A man and a girl stood looking down in silence at the village, Ploumariel, from their post of vantage, half way up the hill: at its lichened church spire, dotted with little gables, like dove?cotes; at the slated roof of its market; at its quiet white houses. The man?s eyes rested on it complacently, with the enjoyment of the painter, finding it charming: the girl?s, a little absently, as one who had seen it very often before. She was pretty and very young, but her gray serious eyes, the poise of her head, with its rebellious brown hair braided plainly, gave her a little air of dignity, of reserve which sat piquantly upon her youth. In one ungloved hand, that was brown from the sun, but very beautiful, she held an old parasol, the other played occasionally with a bit of purple heather. Presently she began to speak, using English just coloured by a foreign accent, that made her speech prettier.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A CASE OF CONSCIENCE, 1 -- Ernest Dowson, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 4 -- III, 6