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I have travelled there, and shall endeavour to travel there again in your company.
Who would have thought that education was like this?
Haha
all he described they saw with their inside eyes, so that the pictures in the books were scarcely necessary,
Simile!
the other three learned to repeat after Uncle Ambrose lines of poetry that he spoke for them, first in Greek and then in English.
Sappho
Vesper, bringing all that shining dawn has scattered
you bring the sheep and goat, you bring the mother’s child;
far away you bring the child from mother, baneful star.
https://symmachus.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/two-wedding-song-fragments-of-sappho/
‘Enjoyed yourselves enough to want to learn the history of this country, its language and poetry?
Education is a mosaic of beauty. The various coloured fragments are interrelated.’
Tomorrow I shall teach you how to lay the foundation stone of all education; hard work.
Lady Alicia?’
Moses Glory Glory Alleluja
Haha
Gertrude,
Old Tom Biddle,
Abednego.
the home of Lady Alicia.
Frederick
Haha
Personification
pushing the branches back to make a way through for the trap.
though they made a way through, they didn’t seem to come through.
Haha uncanny, also p. 13 they didn’t seem to be coming to wherever it was they were going.
the strange twilit place imposed its own silence.
full of joy,
Nan walked bravely forward, for she was a child who would not have liked to hurt the feelings of the devil himself,
Haha. And she’s the bravest of them, p. 18
one of the most attractive men they had ever seen. He was a black man with white woolly hair,
Simile hyperbole
Haha
Haha
once it had been an orchard or a garden,
the hum of bees.
Linden Manor,
Lion Tor
Linden Wood
Simile dewcriptive
Hot, murmurous with bees,
the place cast a spell.
the monkey was sitting on the doorstep playing cat’s-cradle.
Abednego,’
It was a dark dreary place, not at all like the bright happy kitchen at the Vicarage.
Chittering, chuntering
Betsy
The queer mixture of man, child, and creature fascinated her.
Gertrude
Simile
Haha
She forgot this was a house.
Betsy had thought the cobwebs at the Vicarage were glorious, but they were nothing to these, which looked as though they had been here for a hundred years, growing more intricate and marvellous all the time.
the bees stopped revolving in the sunbeam and led the way up the stairs.
a needlework picture hanging on the wall close to her. It showed men on horseback, with falcons on their wrists, riding through a forest glade towards a town built high up on a mountain that rose above the tops of the tallest trees.
Simile descriptive
