The Light of Evening by Edna O'Brien

Author:Edna O'Brien
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780618919734
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2006-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Shadow and half-shadow as they walked between the line of trees, moonlight spilling down and slashes of it on the path, silvering the tree trunk and path where they walked and halted, each surprised to find the other abroad at so late an hour. She had gone out by the back kitchen door and he, as she reckoned, must have left by the door that led to the potting shed. Then passing on, as strangers might. If ever there was a moment for reconciliation it was there, it was then, the softness of the night, the trees in their spring vesture and the sighing of the leaves, not like winter’s brawl.

She carried on up to the fence, climbed it, and looked beneath to where the sheep lay in their shifting slumbers, a stream from somewhere trilling happily along and seeming to say the same thing — Irrawaddy, Irrawaddy … Irrawaddy.

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