I have no thought of renewing the conflicts and cares that filled that summer with sorrow. There were fightings without and fears within; there was the surrender of an enterprise that had been cherished since boyhood, and the bitter sense of irremediable weakness that follows such a reverse; there was a touch of that wrath with those we love, which, as Coleridge says, "Doth work like madness in the brain;"flying across the sea from these troubles, I had found my old comrade of merrier days sentenced to death, and caught but a brief glimpse of his pale, brave face as he went away into exile. At such a time the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after rain. But through those clouds the Mistress of the Glen came to meet me--a stranger till then, but an appointed friend, a minister of needed grace, an angel of quiet comfort. The thick mists of rebellion, mistrust, and despair have long since rolled away, and against the background of the hills her figure stands out clearly, dressed in the fashion of fifty years ago, with the snowy hair gathered close beneath her widow's cap, and a spray of white heather in her outstretched hand.
同类推荐
热门推荐
呆萌公主:上仙你别走
她是天界公主,他是冷漠上仙。她为他数次以身犯险,驱灾解难,他亦一次次推开她。她与魔界少主灵境定下婚约,某男却来抢婚?“你是我的,一辈子也别想逃掉!”她转身拂开他的手。他一怒之下将她推倒,“女人,我说过了,你只能是我的!”情敌来临,“男人,放开我的女人!”某男冷笑一声,“不服?来战!”降爷有道之巫女爱剖尸
沙漠旅个游,竟也能穿越。好吧,她接受!不想,自此翻墙,跑酷,窥美男,样样来。巫术,中医,手术刀,三不误。她生活中很逗比,办事儿时很屌。正当她准备将百变进行到底之时,冒出个自认风流倜傥的流氓来!常常在耳边恶心:“乖,多吃肉,你看你都瘦了。”(本文纯属虚构,请勿模仿。)