Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 27, 2025
"Tell true now, Mercy: that you are Scotch need not keep you from speaking the truth: don't you think heather just well just a leetle magentaish? not a colour to be altogether admired? just a little vulgar, don't you know? The fashion has changed so much within the last few years!" "No, I don't think so; and if I did I should be ashamed of it.
A tall narrow French window looking to the backs of houses, and opening on a leaded balcony. Spindle-wood trees, green balls held up on ramrod stems in green tubs. Richard's garden. Curtains of thin silk, brilliant magenta, letting the light through. The hanging green bough of a plane tree, high up on the pane, between. A worn magentaish rug on the dark floor.
As for not getting used to it, that was precisely the effect she wanted: rooms that wouldn't look like anything in the house at Morfe, things that she would always come on with a faint, exquisite surprise: the worn magentaish rug on the dark polished floor, the oak table, the gentian blue chair, the thin magenta curtains letting the light through: the things Richard had given her because in their beginning they had been meant for her.
"Tell true now, Mercy: that you are Scotch need not keep you from speaking the truth: don't you think heather just well just a leetle magentaish? not a colour to be altogether admired? just a little vulgar, don't you know? The fashion has changed so much within the last few years!" "No, I don't think so; and if I did I should be ashamed of it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking