[Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookJacob’s Room CHAPTER EIGHT 9/27
The words we seek hang close to the tree.
We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf. Mrs.Flanders wrote letters; Mrs.Jarvis wrote them; Mrs.Durrant too; Mother Stuart actually scented her pages, thereby adding a flavour which the English language fails to provide; Jacob had written in his day long letters about art, morality, and politics to young men at college.
Clara Durrant's letters were those of a child.
Florinda--the impediment between Florinda and her pen was something impassable.
Fancy a butterfly, gnat, or other winged insect, attached to a twig which, clogged with mud, it rolls across a page.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|