The Dweller on the Threshold
image1
By Robert Hichens 1 Feb, 2020
Brief Extract: The sadness noted by Malling was at first evasive and fleeting, not indellibly fixed in the puckers of a forehead, or in the down drawn corners of a mouth. It was as a thin, almost impalpable mist, that can scarcely be seen, yet that a ... Read more
Brief Extract: The sadness noted by Malling was at first evasive and fleeting, not indellibly fixed in the puckers of a forehead, or in the down drawn corners of a mouth. It was as a thin, almost impalpable mist, that can scarcely be seen, yet that alters all the features in a landscape ever so faintly. Like a shadow it traveled across the eyes, obscured the forehead, lay about the lips. And as a shadow lifts it lifted. But it soon returned, like a thing uneasy that is becoming determined to discover an abiding place. Less
  • File size
  • Print pages
  • Publisher
  • Language
  • ISBN
  • 152.19 KB
  • 170
  • Public Domain Book
  • English
  • 978-1374955059
Robert Hichens (Robert Smythe Hichens, 14 November 1864 – 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He...
Related Books