willow-stools

Updated: May 24, 2025

We reached Agen very late that evening, after groping our way through a by-road near the river, set with holes and willow-stools and frog-spawn a place no better than a slough; so that after it the great fires and lights at the Blue Maid seemed like a glimpse of a new world, and in a twinkling put something of life and spirits into two at least of us.

Stanley John Weyman - Under the Red Robe