Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
William Black. Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures
CHAPTER I. AN ASSIGNATION
CHAPTER II. SIGNIOR CRAB-APPLE
CHAPTER III. THE PLANTING OF THE CHARM
CHAPTER IV. A PAGEANT
CHAPTER V. IN A WOODED LANE
CHAPTER VI. WITHIN-DOORS
CHAPTER VII. A FAREWELL
CHAPTER VIII. A QUARREL
CHAPTER IX. THROUGH THE MEADOWS
CHAPTER X. A PLAY-HOUSE
CHAPTER XI. A REMONSTRANCE
CHAPTER XII. DIVIDED WAYS
CHAPTER XIII. A HERALD MERCURY
CHAPTER XIV. A TIRE-WOMAN
CHAPTER XV. A FIRST PERFORMANCE
CHAPTER XVI. BY THE RIVER
CHAPTER XVII. WILD WORDS
CHAPTER XVIII. A CONJECTURE
CHAPTER XIX. A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND
CHAPTER XX. VARYING MOODS
CHAPTER XXI. A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXII. PORTENTS
CHAPTER XXIII. A LETTER
CHAPTER XXIV. A VISITOR
CHAPTER XXV. AN APPEAL
CHAPTER XXVI. TO LONDON TOWN
CHAPTER XXVII. EVIL TIDINGS
CHAPTER XXVIII. RENEWALS
CHAPTER XXIX "THE ROSE IS FROM MY GARDEN GONE."
CHAPTER XXX. IN TIME OF NEED
CHAPTER XXXI. A LOST ARCADIA
CHAPTER XXXII. A RESOLVE
CHAPTER XXXIII. ARRIVALS
CHAPTER XXXIV. AN AWAKENING
CHAPTER XXXV. TOWARD THE LIGHT
CHAPTER XXXVI "WESTERN WIND, WHEN WILL YOU BLOW?"
Отрывок из книги
There was much ado in the house all that day, in view of the home-coming on the morrow, and it was not till pretty late in the evening that Judith was free to steal out for a gossip with her friend and chief companion, Prudence Shawe. She had not far to go – but a couple of doors off, in fact; and her coming was observed by Prudence herself, who happened to be sitting at the casemented window for the better prosecution of her needle-work, there being still a clear glow of twilight in the sky. A minute or so thereafter the two friends were in Prudence's own chamber, which was on the first floor, and looking out to the back over barns and orchards; and they had gone to the window, to the bench there, to have their secrets together. This Prudence Shawe was some two years Judith's junior – though she really played the part of elder sister to her; she was of a pale complexion, with light straw-colored hair; not very pretty, perhaps, but she had a restful kind of face that invited friendliness and sympathy, of which she had a large abundance to give in return. Her custom was of a Puritanical plainness and primness, both in the fashion of it and in its severe avoidance of color; and that was not the only point on which she formed a marked contrast to this dear cousin and wilful gossip of hers, who had a way of pleasing herself (more especially if she thought she might thereby catch her father's eye) in apparel as in most other things. And on this occasion – at the outset at all events – Judith would not have a word said about the assignation of the morning. The wizard was dismissed from her mind altogether. It was about the home-coming of the next day that she was all eagerness and excitement; and her chief prayer and entreaty was that her friend Prudence should go with her to welcome the travellers home.
"Nay, but you must and shall, dear Prue; sweet mouse, I beg it of you!" she was urging. "Every one at New Place is so busy that they have fixed upon Signior Crab-apple to ride with me; and you know I cannot suffer him; and I shall not have a word of my father all the way back, not a word; there will be nothing but a discourse about fools, and idle jests, and wiseman Matthew the hero of the day – "
.....
"If your mother were to know, Judith – "
"To know what, sweetheart? That you walked with me as far as the church and back again? Why, on such a fine and summer-like night I dare be sworn, now, that half the good folk of Stratford are abroad; and it is no such journey into a far country that we should take one of the maids with us. Nay, come, sweet Prue! We shall have a merry ride to-morrow; to-night for your friendship's sake you must do me this small service."
.....