Capitolo 1
A VILLAGE OPHELIA
FROM
ANN REEVE ALDRICH
YORK NUOVA:
_W. Dillingham Co., Publishers_,
MDCCCXCIX.
CONTAINED
A VILLAGE OPHELIA
A HISTORY OF THE VEERS DE VEER
A TEARFUL COMEDY
A DISCOVERY AFRICAN
AN EVENING WITH CALLENDER
A VILLAGE OPHELIA
On the East end of Long Island, from Riverhead to Greenport a distance
of approximately thirty miles, two country follows the trace of parallel course.
The road of north is very near the Sound and street from the villages; solitary
farm-houses are sprinkled to long intervals; in of the places their number
you increase enough to form setup an a little desolate, but there is
never a shop, neither signal of the life of village. What, one has to look for on the South
follows the trace of, with his small small villages to that the roaders" of "north, as they is
rather he/she called condescendingly, you drive I cross to church, or to do
purchases.
It was on the road of north of that I spent one gilded August in the house
Mrs. Libby. Its small grey house was lovingly empaled on the forehead
and snow-ball sides bushes and magenta French-lilacs that are grown
softly next to the time-used herpes, and back of one burnt by the sun
field, as far as you/he/she could see the eye, lengthened the expanse of the dark,
diamonds to wash rub-oaks over that, one knew, it was the warm one, blue shine of
the Sound.
Mrs. Libby was a great iron-grey widow of sixty, insatiably avid of
so carnal he/she comforts how come you/he/she had come inside his/her knowledge--soft
pillows, flat heavily sweetened attire more excellent than his/her neighbors.
You had cold eyes, and nature was formed the mouth and you/he/she had made a sermon to as the
little silver-ruled adder that I found one day, lacerated from some
I dolly momentary, in the yellow dust of the road. Its lips were tense
for never in that same flat smile, unchangeable. When she was transported the head,
You taken the glint of a sequence of gold beads, mean-unknown in a fold
of his/her strong throat. You commonly had still a the beautiful figure, she was
called a woman that looks excellent; and she sat every afternoon and it sewed from