The Path of Life

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Stijn Streuvels. The Path of Life

The Path of Life

Table of Contents

TRANSLATOR’s NOTE

ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

I. THE WHITE SAND-PATH

II. IN EARLY WINTER

III. CHRISTMAS NIGHT

IV. LOAFING

V. SPRING

VI. IN THE SQUALL

VII. A PIPE OR NO PIPE

VIII. ON SUNDAYS

MONTALEMBERT

IX. AN ACCIDENT

X. WHITE LIFE

XI. THE END

FOOTNOTES:

THE END

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Stijn Streuvels

Published by Good Press, 2019

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From behind the black clouds came a light, a dull copper glow, without rays, high up where the stars were; it set golden edges to the hem of the clouds; the heaven remained black. There appeared a little streak of glowing copper, which grew and grew, became a sickle, a half-disk and at last a great, round, giant gold moon, which rose and rose. It went up like a huge round orange behind the heaven and, more and more swiftly, shot up into the sky, growing smaller and smaller, till it became just a common moon, the laughing moon among the stars.

He alone had seen it.

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