The Puppet Crown
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ISBN10: 1985381427
ISBN13: 9781985381421
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 8 2018
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781985381421
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 8 2018
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The king sat in his private garden in the shade of a potted orange tree, the leaves of which were splashed with brilliant yellow. It was high noon of one of those last warm sighs of passing summer which now and then lovingly steal in between the chill breaths of September. The velvet hush of the mid-day hour had fallen. There was an endless horizon of turquoise blue, a zenith pellucid as glass. The trees stood motionless; not a shadow stirred, save that which was cast by the tremulous wings of a black and purple butterfly, which, near to his Majesty, fell, rose and sank again. From a drove of wild bees, swimming hither and thither in quest of the final sweets of the year, came a low murmurous hum, such as a man sometimes fancies he hears while standing alone in the vast auditorium of a cathedral. The king, from where he sat, could see the ivy-clad towers of the archbishop's palace, where, in and about the narrow windows, gray and white doves fluttered and plumed themselves. The garden sloped gently downward till it merged into a beautiful lake called the Werter See, which, stretching out several miles to the west, in the heart of the thick-wooded hills, trembled like a thin sheet of silver.
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