Macaria

ISBN-13: 9781523750030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 142 str.

Augusta J. Evans

Opis

The town-clock was on the last stroke of twelve, the solitary candle measured but two inches from its socket, and as the summer wind rushed through the half-closed shutters, the melted tallow dripped slowly into the brightly-burnished brazen candlestick. The flickering light fell upon the pages of a ledger, and flashed fitfully in the face of the accountant, as he bent over his work.