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IT was not because life was not good enough that Ellen Melville<br >was crying as she sat by the window. The world, indeed, even<br >so much of it as could be seen from her window, was extrava-<br >gantly beautiful. The office of Mr. Mactavish James, Writer<br >to the Signet, was in one of those decent grey streets that lie<br >high on the northward slope of Edinburgh New Town, and<br >Ellen was looking up the side-street that opened just opposite<br >and revealed, menacing as the rattle of spears, the black rock<br >and bastions Gf the Castle against the white beamless glare of<br >the southern sky. And it was the hour of the clear Edinburgh<br >twilight, that strange time when the world seems to have for-<br >gotten the sun though it keeps its colour ; it could still be seen<br >that the moss between the cobblestones was a wet bright green,<br >and that a red autumn had been busy with the wind-nipped<br >trees, yet these things were not gay, but cold and remote as<br >brightness might be on the bed of a deep stream, ,fathoms beneath<br >the visitation of the sun. At this time all the town was ghostly,<br >and she loved it so. She took her mind by the arm and marched<br >it up and down among the sights of Edinburgh, telling it that<br >to be weeping with discontent in such a place was a scandalous<br >turning up of the nose at good mercies. Now the Castle Es-<br >planade, that all day had proudly supported the harsh, virile<br >sounds and colours of the drilling regiments, would show to the<br >slums its blank surface, bleached bone-white by the winds that<br >raced above the city smoke. Now the Cowgate and the Canon-<br >gate would be given over to the drama of the disorderly night ;<br >the shim-dwellers would foregather about the rotting doors of<br >dead men s mansions and brawl among the not less brawling<br >ghosts of a past that here never speaks of peace, but only of<br >blood and argument. And Holyrood, under a black bank sur-<br >mounted by a low bitten cliff, would lie like the camp of an<br >invading and terrified army She stopped and said, "Yon<br > D<br >
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The Judge pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024