Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock - Books - INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED - 9798717373456 - April 19, 2021
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Thomas Love Peacock
Nightmare Abbey

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Book Excerpt: ... Hilary, --hand Mrs Hilary to the piano, take charge of her fan and gloves, and turn over her music with surprising dexterity, --quote Revelations with Mr Toobad, --and lament the good old times of feudal darkness with the transcendental Mr Flosky.* * * * *CHAPTER IIShortly after the disastrous termination of Scythrop's passion for Miss Emily Girouette, Mr Glowry found himself, much against his will, involved in a lawsuit, which compelled him to dance attendance on the High Court of Chancery. Scythrop was left alone at Nightmare Abbey. He was a burnt child, and dreaded the fire of female eyes. He wandered about the ample pile, or along the garden-terrace, with 'his cogitative faculties immersed in cogibundity of cogitation.' The terrace terminated at the south-western tower, which, as we have said, was ruinous and full of owls. Here would Scythrop take his evening seat, on a fallen fragment of mossy stone, with his back resting ag

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 19, 2021
ISBN13 9798717373456
Publishers INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Pages 96
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 5 mm   ·   104 g
Language English  

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