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Patsy: A Story

By Henry de Vere Stacpoole

2019-06-14 19:38:53

A flock of wild geese flying across the sunset far away, remote, fantastic, the only living things visible in a world filling with shadows, lent the last touch of beauty to the vast and lonely moors. “They’re makin’ for the pools of Cloyne, ... Read more
A flock of wild geese flying across the sunset far away, remote, fantastic, the only living things visible in a world filling with shadows, lent the last touch of beauty to the vast and lonely moors. “They’re makin’ for the pools of Cloyne, sir,” said the keeper. Mr Fanshawe watched the flock pass and vanish in the amber distance like a wreath of smoke. Away to the left, covering themselves with night and gloom, stood the hills of Glynn, where the golden eagle still has its eyrie, and the wild goat its home. From there, away to the west, the great moors stretched to the hills of Cloyne. It was a typical Irish winter’s evening, the sky threatening and forgetting to rain, the air damp and filled with the scent of the earth, near things indistinct in the gathering twilight, and far things seeming near. Less

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File size309.622 KB
Print pages268
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2015-12-13
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1473302174
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Henry de Vere Stacpoole
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Henry De Vere Stacpoole (9 April 1863 – 12 April 1951) was an Irish author, born in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire). His best known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which has been adap...

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