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Downland Echoes
Victor L. Whitechurch
出版Good Press, 2021-08-30
主題Fiction / General
ISBNEAN:4066338052261
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=a6pBEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Downland Echoes by Victor L. Whitechurch is about the notorious Tom Horner, who was in the business of well-digging, thatching, and poaching, of which the most profitable of these was poaching. Excerpt: "There were two principal types in the village. First, men with thin faces and noses and dark hair and eyes - eyes that were set near each other and did not easily look you straight in the face. Perhaps - indeed, most likely - their ancestors were Britons; Britons who were never altogether driven westward by the invader. The other men were fair of hair and fresh-faced - faces inclining to roundness, with big noses and light eyes. Anglo-Saxon these. Men that got louder and more quarrelsome than the dark-faced men when drunk - if so be that they drank, but men you would sooner quarrel with, all the same-that is, if your quarrel were not to be a lasting one."