Alas a Novel volume 1
Alas a Novel volume 1
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Elizabeth has been perfectly silent, yet at last she speaks. It is in the Chapter House, where, as most of us have done, they have suddenly come upon another tomb, the tomb of one lying full-length on the pavement before the altar, with no separating edge of marble or wrought-iron railing to keep him from the foot of the passer-by. He lies there, portrayed with such an extraordinary vividness of life about his prostrate figure and his severe, VOL. I. 15 226 ALAS/ powerful face, that one feels I...nclined to speak low, lest he should lift his white lids and look rebuke at us. In the lines about his mouth there is a hint of sardonic mirth. Is he — hearing our foolish chatter — touched with a grave contemptuous amusement at it ? Or is he keeping in his sleep the memory of some four hundred years' old jest ? Elizabeth has involuntarily crept close to Burgoyne's side, with the gesture of a frio-htened child.
"Are you sure that he did not stir?" she asks tremulously under her breath. Her next thought is that her mother must see him too, this wonderful living dead man, and they presently set forth to return to the garden to fetch her.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Elizabeth has been perfectly silent, yet at last she speaks. It is in the Chapter House, where, as most of us have done, they have suddenly come upon another tomb, the tomb of one lying full-length on the pavement before the altar, with no separating edge of marble or wrought-iron railing to keep him from the foot of the passer-by. He lies there, portrayed with such an extraordinary vividness of life about his prostrate figure and his severe, VOL. I. 15 226 ALAS/ powerful face, that one feels I...nclined to speak low, lest he should lift his white lids and look rebuke at us. In the lines about his mouth there is a hint of sardonic mirth. Is he — hearing our foolish chatter — touched with a grave contemptuous amusement at it ? Or is he keeping in his sleep the memory of some four hundred years' old jest ? Elizabeth has involuntarily crept close to Burgoyne's side, with the gesture of a frio-htened child.
"Are you sure that he did not stir?" she asks tremulously under her breath. Her next thought is that her mother must see him too, this wonderful living dead man, and they presently set forth to return to the garden to fetch her.
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