The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 24
... of colour that their plain features were transfigured . The sunlight under their faces made them beautiful . The summer light had been absorbed by the skin , and now shone forth from it again ; as certain 24 THE OPEN AIR .
... of colour that their plain features were transfigured . The sunlight under their faces made them beautiful . The summer light had been absorbed by the skin , and now shone forth from it again ; as certain 24 THE OPEN AIR .
Page 25
... sunlight had been drunk up by the surface of the skin , and emanated from it . Hour after hour in the gardens and orchards they worked in the full beams of the sun , gathering fruit for the London market , resting at midday in the shade ...
... sunlight had been drunk up by the surface of the skin , and emanated from it . Hour after hour in the gardens and orchards they worked in the full beams of the sun , gathering fruit for the London market , resting at midday in the shade ...
Page 27
... sunlight , and still more , from some alchemy unknown to the physician or the physiologist , some faculty exercised by the body , happily endowed with a special power of extracting the utmost richness and benefit from the rudest ...
... sunlight , and still more , from some alchemy unknown to the physician or the physiologist , some faculty exercised by the body , happily endowed with a special power of extracting the utmost richness and benefit from the rudest ...
Page 28
... sunlight , the air , and abroad upon the earth . If so they chose , and without stress or strain , they could see the sunrise , they could be with him as it were unwearied and without distress - the livelong day ; they could stay on ...
... sunlight , the air , and abroad upon the earth . If so they chose , and without stress or strain , they could see the sunrise , they could be with him as it were unwearied and without distress - the livelong day ; they could stay on ...
Page 29
... sunlight and the stars . I thought of them all day , and envied them ( as they envied me ) , and in the evening I found them again . It was growing dark , and the shadow took away something of the coarseness of the group outside one of ...
... sunlight and the stars . I thought of them all day , and envied them ( as they envied me ) , and in the evening I found them again . It was growing dark , and the shadow took away something of the coarseness of the group outside one of ...
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