The Children E-Book

Alice Meynell

• Herausgeber: Alice Meynell
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The ChildrenByAlice Meynell

Leseprobe

The Children

By

Alice Meynell

Table of Contents

FELLOW TRAVELLERS WITH A BIRD, I.

FELLOW TRAVELLERS WITH A BIRD, II.

CHILDREN IN MIDWINTER

THAT PRETTY PERSON

OUT OF TOWN

EXPRESSION

UNDER THE EARLY STARS

THE MAN WITH TWO HEADS

CHILDREN IN BURLESQUE

AUTHORSHIP

LETTERS

THE FIELDS

THE BARREN SHORE

THE BOY

ILLNESS

THE YOUNG CHILD

FAIR AND BROWN

REAL CHILDHOOD

FELLOW TRAVELLERS WITH A BIRD, I.

To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupations.  You cannot anticipate him.  Blackbirds, overheard year by year, do not compose the same phrases; never two leitmotifs alike.  Not the tone, but the note alters.  So with the uncovenated ways of a child you keep no tryst.  They meet you at another place, after failing you where you tarried; your former experiences, your documents are at fault.  You are the fellow traveller of a bird.  The bird alights and escapes out of time to your footing.