| | 1 | Author: | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The White Company  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest
might be heard its musical clangor and swell, Peat-cutters on Blackdown
and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling
upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts—as
common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet
the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at
each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far
off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were
neither short nor long? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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