The Girl Green As Elderflower (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
That idea of health was all but novel to him, he had sunk so deep, and it presented itself with an urgent attractiveness in the new year’s astonishing first white light. Through a window to his right the old unpruned apple tree which had gathered wreaths of snow in its mossy twigs was being shocked free of them by the spurts of little dun birds. The two rising fields behind, one pasture and one plough, were today unbroken by any tussock or ridge of conker-coloured earth, and lay so uniformly white and unshadowed that it seemed that they must be uniformly level. In the distance, across the river, a line of bare poplars on a ridge was caught in an odd spotlight of sun, and stood out against the heavy sky with an unEnglish sharpness, shining through air from which all moisture had frozen and fallen. The other window was directly before him as he lay in bed, and indeed he had aligned the bed, in the summer, so that by moonlight he could look down the clearing of the abandoned fishponds, with their nettle-choked sluices, to the Sylphides-like wood which closed the view.
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