Uncle Cornelius, His Story Uncle Cornelius, His Story

Uncle Cornelius, His Story

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It was a dull evening in November. A drizzling mist had been falling all day about the old farm. Harry Heywood and his two sisters sat in the house-place, expecting a visit from their uncle, Cornelius Heywood. This uncle lived alone, occupying the first floor above a chemist’s shop in the town, and had just enough of money over to buy books that nobody seemed ever to have heard of but himself; for he was a student in all those regions of speculation in which anything to be called knowledge is impossible.


“What a dreary night!” said Kate. “I wish uncle would come and tell us a story.”


“A cheerful wish,” said Harry. “Uncle Cornie is a lively companion-isn’t he? He cant even blunder through a Joe Miller without tacking a moral to it, and then trying to persuade you that the joke of it depends on the moral.”


“Here he comes!” said Kate, as three distinct blows with the knob of his walking-stick announced the arrival of Uncle Cornelius. She ran to the door to open it.


The air had been very still all day, but as he entered he seemed to have brought the wind with him, for the first moan of it pressed against rather than shook the casement of the low-ceiled room.

GENERE
Narrativa e letteratura
PUBBLICATO
1989
23 aprile
LINGUA
EN
Inglese
PAGINE
110
EDITORE
Library of Alexandria
DIMENSIONE
206,1
KB

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