Shannon’s Reviews > The Sword in the Stone > Status Update

"...you can see the shafts of the huge chimneys and how cunningly the side flues were contrived to enter them, and how the little private closets, now public..."

love the way Merlyn is described, as though he is a nest for the birds, and a spider falling from a web on the tip of his hat!

"the aged gentleman was staring at him with a kind of unwinking and benevolent curiosity..."

unwinking: adjective (of a stare or a shining light) steady; unwavering. "the lights shone unwinking in the still air"