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[.]slender parasol, climb over two stiles, tramp over three fields and along two hundred yards of road-never further. There stood Foster's cottage. She would help her mother to give their… More...

[.]slender parasol, climb over two stiles, tramp over three fields and along two hundred yards of road-never further. There stood Foster's cottage. She would help her mother to give their tea to the younger children, wash up the crockery, kiss the little ones, and go back to the farm. That was all. All the rest, all the change, all the relaxation. She never seemed to wish for anything more. And then she fell in love. She fell in love silently, obstinately-perhaps helplessly. It came slowly, [.]slender parasol, climb over two stiles, tramp over three fields and along two hundred yards of road-never further. There stood Foster's cottage. She would help her mother to give their tea to the younger children, wash up the crockery, kiss the little ones, and go back to the farm. That was all. All the rest, all the change, all the relaxation. She never seemed to wish for anything more. And then she fell in love. She fell in love silently, obstinately-perhaps helplessly. It came slowly, but when it came it worked like a powerful spell; it was love as the Ancients understood it: an irresistible and fateful impulse-a possession! Yes, it was in her to become haunted and possessed by a face, by a presence, fatally, as though she had been a pagan worshipper of form under a joyous sky-and to be awakened at last from that mysterious forgetfulness of self, from that enchantment, from that transport, by a fear resembling the unaccountable terror of a brute." With the sun hanging low on its western limit, the expanse of the grass-lands framed in the counter-scarps of the rising ground took on a gorgeous and sombre aspect. A sense of penetrating sadness, like that inspired by a grave strain of music, disengaged itself from the silence of the fields. The men we met walked past slow, unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of an over-burdened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down[.]". EBooks, Books, Amy-Foster~~Joseph-Conrad, 999999999, Amy Foster, Joseph Conrad, 0151636702, Jose Borja Botia, , , , , Jose Borja Botia<