Friday, June 1, 2012

THE DEMON IN THE HOUSE - 1



"Rising Castle was situated on a hill at the confluence of the Rising and Rushmore.  It boasted a Norman keep in fair condition and a good deal of the original walls.  The fourth Lord Stoke had defended the castle against Cromwell, who had unpleasantly battered him into honorable capitulation.  After several generations of neglect the present earl's great-grandfather had built a comfortable mansion from the stones of the ruins.  The present owner had put such parts of the castle as were still standing into tolerable repair and allowed the public to visit them at sixpence a head."  ...   "Lord Stoke, with maddening slowness and infinite wealth of detailed explanation of what he and his architect had been doing, then  showed them the piece of Norman wall that he was rebuilding, the foundations of what might have been a chapel, and the room in which it was on the whole improbable that Charles II had slept after the battle of Worcester."

Thursday, May 31, 2012

HIGH RISING

















Ah Laura, you mock me.  Your paths are beyond me.  
You raise mediocrity to genius."                                                       George Knox to Laura Morland

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

HIGH RISING - 10

"High Rising was a pretty, unpretentious village consisting of one street, whose more imposing houses were vaguely Georgian.  Laura's house stood at the end, so that she had no more than a mile to walk to Low Rising, which was only a church, a vicarage, a farm, and a handful of cottages."

Sunday, May 27, 2012

HIGH RISING - 9


"But on hearing that Mr. Brown of the garage was going to jack the car up that afternoon, he temporarily forgot about trains and rushed off to make arrangements with the vet to take the foxhound, whose leg was nearly well, to see the fun."