Name: Armorel of Lyonesse A Romance of To-day
Author: Walter Besant
ISBN: 978-0428613433

Armorel of Lyonesse A Romance of To-day

By Walter Besant 22 Sep, 2020

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IT was the evening of a fine September day. Through the square window, built out so as to form another room almost as large as that which had been thus enlarged, the autumn sun, now fast declining to the west, poured in warm and strong. But not too warm or too strong for the girl on whose head it fell as she sat leaning back in the low chair, her face turned towards the window. The sun of Scilly is never too fierce or too burning in summer, nor in winter does it ever lose its force; in July, when the people Of the adjacent islands Of Great Brit ain and Ireland venture not forth into the glare of the sun, here the soft sea mists and the strong sea air temper the heat; and in December the sun still shines with a lingering warmth, as if he loved the place. The girl lived in the sunshine all the year round; rowed in it; lay in it; basked in it, bareheaded, sum mer and winter; in the winter she would sit sheltered from the wind in some warm corner of the rocks; in' summer She would lie on the hillside or stand upon the high headlands and the sea-beat crags while the breezes, which in the Land of Lyonesse do never cease, played with her long tresses and kept her soft cheek cool. Less

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