ISBN: 1490522875

[EAN: 9781490522876], Neubuch, [PU: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], J. M. BARRIE,CLASSICS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 128 pages. Dimensions: 11.0in. x 8.5in.… More...

[EAN: 9781490522876], Neubuch, [PU: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform], J. M. BARRIE,CLASSICS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 128 pages. Dimensions: 11.0in. x 8.5in. x 0.3in.Long ago, in the days when our caged blackbirds never saw a kings soldier without whistling impudently, Come ower the water to Charlie, a minister of Thrums was to be married, but something happened, and he remained a bachelor. Then, when he was old, he passed in our square the lady who was to have been his wife, and her hair was white, but she, too, was still unmarried. The meeting had only one witness, a weaver, and he said solemnly afterwards, They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een. No more is remembered of these two, no being now living ever saw them, but the poetry that was in the soul of a battered weaver makes them human to us for ever. It is of another minister I am to tell, but only to those who know that light when they see it. I am not bidding good-bye to many readers, for though it is true that some men, of whom Lord Rintoul was one, live to an old age without knowing love, few of us can have met them, and of women so incomplete I never heard. Gavin Dishart was barely twenty-one when he and his mother came to Thrums, light-hearted like the traveller who knows not what awaits him at the bend of the 2 road. It was the time of year when the ground is carpeted beneath the firs with brown needles, when split-nuts patter all day from the beech, and children lay yellow corn on the dominies desk to remind him that now they are needed in the fields. The day was so silent that carts could be heard rumbling a mile away. All Thrums was out in its wynds and closesa few of the weavers still in knee-breechesto look at the new Auld Licht minister. I was there too, the dominie of Glen Quharity, which is four miles from Thrums; and heavy was my heart as I stood afar off so that Gavins mother might not have the pain of seeing me. I was the only one in the crowd who looked at her more than at her son. This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781490522876

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in afforda… More...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Books Books ~~ Fiction~~ Classics Little-Minister~~J-M-Barrie CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform<