Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy (best thriller novels of all time .TXT) π
It was customary to inscribe a few jigs, reels, horn-pipes, and ballads in the same book, by beginning it at the other end, the insertions being continued from front and back till sacred and secular met together in the middle, often with bizarre effect, the words of some of the songs exhibiting that ancient and broad humour which our grandfathers, and possibly grandmothers, took delight i
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βFancy,β he said, βwhy we are so happy is because there is such full confidence between us. Ever since that time you confessed to that little flirtation with Shiner by the river (which was really no flirtation at all), I have thought how artless and good you must be to tell me oβ such a trifling thing, and to be so frightened about it as you were. It has won me to tell you my every deed and word since then. Weβll have no secrets from each other, darling, will we ever?βno secret at all.β
βNone from to-day,β said Fancy. βHark! whatβs that?β
From a neighbouring thicket was suddenly heard to issue in a loud, musical, and liquid voice -
βTippiwit! swe-e-et! ki-ki-ki! Come hither, come hither, come hither!β
βO, βtis the nightingale,β murmured she, and thought of a secret she would never tell.
Footnotes:
{1} This, a local expression, must be a corruption of something less questionable.
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