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Cashel Byron's Profession

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Cashel Byron's Profession

Autor George Bernard Shaw

Excerpt from Cashel Byron's Profession: A Novel Moncrief House, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, &c. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze ... więcej


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Excerpt from Cashel Byron's Profession: A Novel Moncrief House, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, &c. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze, and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon. One wet spring afternoon the sky was full of broken clouds, and the common was swept by their shadows, between which patches of green and yellow gorse were bright in the broken sunlight. The hills to the northward were obscured by a heavy shower,, traces of which were drying off the slates of the school, a square white building, formerly a gentleman's country house. In front of it was a well-kept lawn with a few clipt holly trees. At the rear, quarter of an acre of land was enclosed for the use of the boys. Strollers on the common could hear, at certain hours, a hubbub of voices and racing footsteps from within the boundary wall. Sometimes, when the strollers were boys themselves, they climbed to the coping, and saw on the other side a piece of common trampled bare and brown, with a few square yards of concrete, so worn into hollows as to be unfit for its original use as a ball alley. Also a long shed, a pump, a door defaced by innumerable incised inscriptions, the back of the house in much worse repair than the front, and about fifty boys in tailless jackets and broad turned-down collars. When the fifty boys perceived a stranger on the wall, they rushed to the spot with a wild halloo; overwhelmed him with insult and defiance; and dislodged him by a volley of clods, stones, lumps of bread, and such other projectiles as were at hand. On this rainy spring afternoon, a brougham stood at the door of Moncrief House. The coachman, enveloped in a white india-rubber coat, was bestirring himself a little after the recent shower. Withindoors, in the drawing-room. Dr. Moncrief was conversing with a stately lady aged about thirty-five, elegantly dressed, of attractive manner, and only falling short of absolute beauty in her complexion, which was deficient in freshness. "No progress whatever, I am sorry to say," the doctor was remarking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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