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Lady Audley's Secret

其他書名	Complete
出版	Independently Published, 2021-02-22
主題	Fiction / ClassicsFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / Mystery & Detective / TraditionalFiction / Romance / SuspenseFiction / Romance / Historical / VictorianFiction / Thrillers / Historical
ISBN	9798712097104
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CRRKzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon itthrough an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which thecattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wondering, perhaps, what you wanted; for there wasno thorough-fare, and unless you were going to the Court you had no business there at all.At the end of this avenue there was an old arch and a clock tower, with a stupid, bewilderingclock, which had only one hand-and which jumped straight from one hour to the next-and wastherefore always in extremes. Through this arch you walked straight into the gardens of AudleyCourt.A smooth lawn lay before you, dotted with groups of rhododendrons, which grew in moreperfection here than anywhere else in the county. To the right there were the kitchen gardens, thefish-pond, and an orchard bordered by a dry moat, and a broken ruin of a wall, in some placesthicker than it was high, and everywhere overgrown with trailing ivy, yellow stonecrop, and darkmoss. To the left there was a broad graveled walk, down which, years ago, when the place had beena convent, the quiet nuns had walked hand in hand; a wall bordered with espaliers, and shadowed onone side by goodly oaks, which shut out the flat landscape, and circled in the house and gardens witha darkening shelter.