Watersprings. Benson Arthur Christopher
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Arthur Christopher Benson
Watersprings
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066170721
Table of Contents
THE SCENE
RESTLESSNESS
WINDLOW
THE POOL
ON THE DOWN
THE HOME CIRCLE
COUNTRY LIFE
THE INHERITANCE
THE VICAR
WITH MAUD ALONE
JACK
DIPLOMACY
GIVING AWAY
BACK TO CAMBRIDGE
JACK'S ESCAPADE
THE VISIT
SELF-SUPPRESSION
THE PICNIC
DESPONDENCY
HIGHMINDEDNESS
THE AWAKENING
LOVE AND CERTAINTY
THE WEDDING
DISCOVERIES
THE NEW KNOWLEDGE
LOVE IS ENOUGH
THE NEW LIFE
THE VICAR'S VIEW
THE CHILD
CAMBRIDGE AGAIN
MAKING THE BEST OF IT
HOWARD'S PROFESSION
ANXIETY
THE DREAM-CHILD
THE POWER OF LOVE
THE TRUTH
I
THE SCENE
The bright pale February sunlight lay on the little court of Beaufort College, Cambridge, on the old dull-red smoke-stained brick, the stone mullions and mouldings, the Hall oriel, the ivied buttresses and battlements, the turrets, the tiled roofs, the quaint chimneys, and the lead-topped cupola over all. Half the court was in shadow. It was incredibly picturesque, but it had somehow the look of a fortress rather than of a house. It did not exist only to be beautiful, but had a well-worn beauty of age and use. There was no domestic adornment of flower-bed or garden-border, merely four squares of grass, looking like faded carpets laid on the rather uncompromising