page_55 - vigji/cainjb GitHub Wiki
- tense:
- gender:
- species:
- cues:
- cues:
- cues:
- cues:
- cues:
- precedes:
- follows: Notes:
Annotated text:
The picture of the Old Mill at Bramley, with its
medlar tree overhanging the water, its
octagonal brick dovecot, and its sweet water
grape vine, had not detained me the day before.
I had groped for my first cigarette of the day,
eyes hardly open, a few miles on. So easily were
things forgotten! I found it difficult to realise
that to-day had once been an English holiday,
like that other fifth, and for much the same
reason. James had got off, the Earl and his
brother Alexander had emphatically not. But
the whole thing was not clear to me, and I
doubted if it was to anyone. The two smells, of
the medlar and the vine, had been the two
notes of a chord, venetian red and peridot, that
bit one ear gently and the other hard---or did I
mean loud and tenuous?---a monotone save for
this variation : once it had been hard, gentle,
hard, hard, gentle, gentle, gentle hard. It had
been a pretty smell.
Original page: page_55.pdf
Original text:
The picture of the Old Mill at Bramley, with its
medlar tree overhanging the water, its
octagonal brick dovecot, and its sweet water
grape vine, had not detained me the day before.
I had groped for my first cigarette of the day,
eyes hardly open, a few miles on. So easily were
things forgotten! I found it difficult to realise
that to-day had once been an English holiday,
like that other fifth, and for much the same
reason. James had got off, the Earl and his
brother Alexander had emphatically not. But
the whole thing was not clear to me, and I
doubted if it was to anyone. The two smells, of
the medlar and the vine, had been the two
notes of a chord, venetian red and peridot, that
bit one ear gently and the other hard---or did I
mean loud and tenuous?---a monotone save for
this variation : once it had been hard, gentle,
hard, hard, gentle, gentle, gentle hard. It had
been a pretty smell.
Italian text: