Excerpt from Dolf ON a breathless morning of late July, Dolf sat on the edge of a counter in the dress department of her father's shop, clasping one knee with her slender hands, and gazed dreamily at the pink frock in the window. Nothing stirred. The children had clattered by on their way to school; the hoof-beats of a passing horse clip-clopped away into the distance. Sunlight transmuted Avonbridge high street into a magician's dream of gold and grey; not a leaf fluttered on any tree and the lazy call of birds came ...
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Excerpt from Dolf ON a breathless morning of late July, Dolf sat on the edge of a counter in the dress department of her father's shop, clasping one knee with her slender hands, and gazed dreamily at the pink frock in the window. Nothing stirred. The children had clattered by on their way to school; the hoof-beats of a passing horse clip-clopped away into the distance. Sunlight transmuted Avonbridge high street into a magician's dream of gold and grey; not a leaf fluttered on any tree and the lazy call of birds came softly as the cooing of a bride. With a sigh almost of agony, Dolf slipped down to the floor and stood straight as truth, slender as a sword, listening to the silence. Little aching thrills of lovely pain ran through her veins, cravings she barely understood, yet longed to satisfy, tore at her heart. She only knew she was seventeen, and a whole beautiful world lay laughing in the sun, a play ground for love, full of splendid lovers. It was a morning when the grass seemed to grow and the buds open before her very eyes; with a sudden smarting of tears Dolf knew she had no lover, that the pink frock would never be hers, that no fairy piping calls a little girl from a country drapery to meet her wonder-sweetheart in the greenwood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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