A Man of Genius: A Story of the Judgment of Paris (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

M. P. Willcocks

9780483865310: A Man of Genius: A Story of the Judgment of Paris (Classic Reprint)

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The low-c'eiled room, with its bare rafters and clean scrubbed ﬂoor, was like the cabin of a ship kept sweet with the nicety of a sailor's hands. A wreck-wood fire burnt in an old hobbed grate, and one large window, curved like the port-hole of an ancient galleon, looked out to sea. Pinned to the wall were pictures of birds cut from illus trated papers, interspersed with rough daubs of fishes, painted in the vivid colours of fish just taken from the water. In one corner there was also a menagerie of sick beasts, a rabbit-hutch, and a cage or two, for John Darra cott had a fine skill in mending the creatures that had come to grief in the battle of life; at one time it would be a bird with a broken wing that inhabited a cage until it could ﬂy again, at another, a rabbit with its leg in splints.

At last the dreamer tore himself from his visions, and, slipping the box into his trouser pocket, opened the house door and stepped out into the roar of sea and wind. On a long ledge of rock crouched a double row of slated, weather beaten houses, from which rose contorted circles of chimney smoke that eddied over the boiling cauldron of maddened waters that surged just below. Over the edge of. The grassy escarpment above this human eyry, five grey donkeys peered with the enquiring faces of 'abstracted curiosity. Hartland Quay, so called because it had once been a coal Wharf, was now half hotel and half farm, and Darracott the sole labourer employed on it, for the farm, being composed chieﬂy of cliff-pastures, required but little labour.

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