Mr. Apollo by Ford Madox Ford--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Ford Madox Ford

Author:Ford Madox Ford [FORD, FORD MADOX]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 12 of 46 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

And whilst she stood, motionless, looking down on the chopper and the cloth with which she had been wiping it, there came into her mind the swift thought of a girl, glimpsing like a lapwing, through her wood, avoiding the eyes of a too hot pursuer, all glorious in his youth. And the girl, running downwards through the hanging woods, drops suddenly and noiselessly to ground disappearing in the odorous, dark trees of the thicket.... And so the legend of the bay tree.

A passion of verse, loose in texture, but big in sound, came into her mind. She could not resist it; she looked down still, but she felt her eyes dilate. Then she knew that the claimant to Godhead was standing in the doorway.

“You have come back,” she said. “I thought you would never come back from that pleasanter world.”

“Child,” he said, “they are too like gods. I could experience nothing from them.”

“Then what do you want of us?” she answered. “We are such poor people.”

“And what,” he said, “do you suppose that I should desire of you?”

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