A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner

Author:Donn Kushner [Kushner, Donn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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always closing. The box was quite still now. He slept deeply;

for a time his dreams were more vivid than the thoughts of his waking life.

Dragons’ dreams are far-ranging: some ancients thought that the whole world may be contained in such dreams. The lives of the people with whom Nonesuch had been concerned passed through his sleep in bright images.

Hubert had boasted to his family of his hope of a position with Sir Ambrose but naturally had said nothing of his treatment by the secretary. The family agreed, each keeping his doubts to himself, that Hubert had got the post, and had so gone up in the world that he would no longer associate with them.

The juggler and his younger son continued to work at the abbey, where some wall or pavement was always in need of repair. In time Simon became a stone-carver himself, whose skill took him around the countryside. Whenever possible he would embellish his work: a portal, a window, or a capital with the head or whole body of a small dragon. He liked to work in high places. Two hundred years later, at the time of the Puritan revolution, all of his work escaped the destruction by the religious reformers’ hammers and long poles. If you visit these churches today, you can still see the dragons, smiling down on headless saints and apostles without hands.

SES Though Sir Ambrose certainly didn’t show it, he was more pleased than otherwise at the theft of the book. He took its loss as a reason to break off his proposed match with Lady Blanche. He had already found a richer alliance; if the bride was dull and coarse-featured, what of that? He need not see much of her. He would have dropped the connection with Hungerford Castle in any case. But this loss of the book, an

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