“He prayed to goodness that the relationship might be reasonably remote. He remembered, anxiously, that a man may not marry his grandmother...”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“her mind was full not of facts, but of glamour;”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“Gradually a change came over Willoughby. It
showed itself first in a distinct gain of strength that overjoyed her. All his life, in the sodden midlands and in the clearer cold of Central Europe, Willoughby’s body had simply struggled for existence; whatever vitality he possessed had been poured out daily to nourish the pale, exotic flower of his music. In this blander climate, like a starved plant that rejoices in a genial soil, the musician became a man.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
showed itself first in a distinct gain of strength that overjoyed her. All his life, in the sodden midlands and in the clearer cold of Central Europe, Willoughby’s body had simply struggled for existence; whatever vitality he possessed had been poured out daily to nourish the pale, exotic flower of his music. In this blander climate, like a starved plant that rejoices in a genial soil, the musician became a man.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“Fortunately, also, that very night the wolfish English summer discarded its lamb-skins.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
“It didn't occur to him to make allowances for the long English twilight. That twilight gave to the landscape a curious effect of suspended life. It cast upon everything (or was that, perhaps, the beer?) an eerie, magical bloom. Every mile that he went - and now he was hurrying - he felt surer and surer that he was on the verge of some shattering experience.”
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
― Cage Bird, And Other Stories
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