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قراءة كتاب Barbara Lynn A Tale of the Dales and Fells.
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BARBARA LYNN
A TALE OF THE DALES AND FELLS
BY EMILY JENKINSON
AUTHOR OF "SILVERWOOL," "THE SOUL OF UNREST."
"An enduring soul have the Fates given unto men."—Iliad.
LONDON
EDWARD ARNOLD
1914
[All Rights Reserved]
CONTENTS
PART I
| I. | THE LONELY STEADING IN THE DALE | 3 |
| II. | THE SISTERS | 15 |
| III. | PETER FLEMING | 32 |
| IV. | THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES | 48 |
| V. | THE WAKING OF THE HOLY WELL | 62 |
| VI. | JOEL'S DARKNESS | 77 |
| VII. | MIDNIGHT | 93 |
| VIII. | JOEL GOES AWAY | 107 |
| IX. | PETER AT OXFORD | 117 |
| X. | KETEL'S PARLOUR | 127 |
| XI. | THE BACK-END | 139 |
| XII. | SIX WHITE HORSES AND A COACH | 152 |
| XIII. | JOEL TAKES THE LONG TRAIL | 165 |
PART II
| XIV. | BARBARA AND PETER | 175 |
| XV. | MORNING AT THE SHEPHERDS' MEET | 191 |
| XVI. | JOEL'S RETURN TO THE DALE | 202 |
| XVII. | THE WRESTLING MATCH | 214 |
| XVIII. | BY THE CRESSET'S LIGHT | 225 |
| XIX. | THE SHEPHERD'S REST | 237 |
| XX. | THE SPELL OF THUNDERGAY | 248 |
| XXI. | THE CALL | 257 |
| XXII. | THE TRYST AT GIRDLESTONE PASS | 266 |
| XXIII. | A PATHWAY OF FIRE | 277 |
| XXIV. | WINTER | 287 |
| XXV. | BARBARA COUNTS THE GOLD | 297 |
| EPILOGUE | 309 |
BARBARA LYNN
PART I
CHAPTER I
The Lonely Steading in the Dale
Barbara Lynn looked up the dale.
Thundergay glimmered through the green twilight with his hoary head under the Pole star, and his feet in the wan waters of a tarn. His breath was the North wind.
Barbara put up the shutters and turned to an old woman, who was propped against the pillows of a four-post bed. It stood in the full light of a turf fire, and looked like a ship with its sails furled.
"I'll bid you good-night and good rest, great-granny," said the girl.
The old woman was watching her with keen eyes—eyes so bright that they glittered under her shaggy brows.
"Do you ever waken o' nights?" she asked.
Barbara laughed and shook her head.
"Nay, I sleep from dark to dawn. But I'd hear