A Little World Apart (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Little World Apart I once heard Applethwaite described as being set upon a hill in a basin, and the comparison is not inept. Applethwaite does stand upon a hill, and the hill is in a valley, which is surrounded - on three sides, at least - by high ground, from which the white roads wind downwards till they meet like friends on Applethwaite bridge. On the other side, where the sun sinks early and redly on winter afternoons, are the moors which vary so in aspect with the seasons, and arc at all times so changing and unlike, that it is no more possible to describe them in a single paragraph than for a photographer to succeed in setting forth - despite the accuracy of mechanism and the subject's best clothes - more than a debonair and smirking mask of the hidden, human soul. And at their feet lies Applethwaite, grey roofs, quiet fields, two rivers winding in and out the varied foliage of wood and coppice. Strangers who come to Applethwaite approach it generally from the other side and. as they cross the bridge, halt nearly always to look over the stone parapet at the swift, brown stream that flows beneath. If elderly, they note the clearness of the water, the varied hues of the pebbles, the presence of fish, and. if young, they see their own reflections brokenly, or watch the myriad silver arrow-heads that, when the sun is shining, glint upon the surface till at the mill the dam engulf them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.