Showing posts with label Rushwater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rushwater. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2012

WILD STRAWBERRIES - 7




"The nursery, which had been the home of Lady Emily's four children, was a large, sunny room made from several half-attic rooms thrown into one, with sloping ceilings in odd corners.  It was filled with the accumulation of many years of children.  A large dappled rocking horse with fiery nostrils stood in one corner."

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

WILD STRAWBERRIES - 4

"... she went to the window and kneeling on the window-seat looked out into the park.  Her bedroom was at the front of the house, overlooking the great meadow which lay bathed in warmth and peace."

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

WILD STRAWBERRIES - 2


"RUSHWATER HOUSE WAS A LARGE, rather Gothic house built by Mr. Leslie's grandfather.  Its only outward merit was that it might have been worse than it was."

Thursday, June 7, 2012

WILD STRAWBERRIES - 1

"Through this gate the Leslie family had come to church with varying degrees of unpunctuality ever since the vicar had been at Rushwater..."