R. D. Blackmore

Name: Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed
Author: R. D. Blackmore

Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

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“Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed”, published in 1869, is a work by R. D. Blackmore. It explores elements such as Lorna, snow and John Fry.

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ As for John Fry, and Betty, and Molly, they were a perfect plague when Lorna came into the kitchen. For betwixt their curiosity to see a live Doone in the flesh (when certain not to eat them) , and their high respect for birth (with or without honesty) , and their intense desire to know all about Master John's sweetheart (dropped, as they said, from the snow-clouds) , and most of all their admiration of a beauty such as never even their angels could have seen—betwixt and between all this, I say, there was no getting the dinner cooked, with Lorna in the kitchen. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ But, of course, this weather had put a stop to every kind of movement; for even if men could have borne the cold, they could scarcely be brought to face the perils of the snow-drifts. And to tell the truth I cared not how long this weather lasted, so long as we had enough to eat, and could keep ourselves from freezing. Not only that I did not want Master Stickles back again, to make more disturbances; but also that the Doones could not come prowling after Lorna while the snow lay piled between us, with the surface soft and dry. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ And indeed, as regards company, I had all the threshing to see to, and more than half to do myself (though any one would have thought that even John Fry must work hard this weather) , else I could not hope at all to get our corn into such compass that a good gun might protect it.
But to come back to Lorna again (which I always longed to do, and must long for ever) , all the change between night and day, all the shifts of cloud and sun, all the difference between black death and brightsome liveliness, scarcely may suggest or equal Lorna's transformation. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ And this was proved, they said, by what had happened in the town of London; where, for more than a fortnight, such a chill of darkness lay that no man might behold his neighbour, even across the narrowest street; and where the ice upon the Thames was more than four feet thick, and crushing London Bridge in twain. Now to these prophets I paid no heed, believing not that Providence would freeze us for other people's sins; neither seeing how England could for many generations have enjoyed good sunshine, if Popery meant frost and fogs. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ One leading feature of that long cold, and a thing remarked by every one (however unobservant) had been the hollow moaning sound ever present in the air, morning, noon, and night-time, and especially at night, whether any wind were stirring, or whether it were a perfect calm. Our people said that it was a witch cursing all the country from the caverns by the sea, and that frost and snow would last until we could catch and drown her. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ And in truth it was time for me to work; not for others, but myself, and (as I always thought) for Lorna. For the rain was now coming down in earnest; and the top of the snow being frozen at last, and glazed as hard as a china cup, by means of the sun and frost afterwards, all the rain ran right away from the steep inclines, and all the outlets being blocked with ice set up like tables, it threatened to flood everything. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ But any one who wished to learn whether girls can change or not, as the things around them change (while yet their hearts are steadfast, and for ever anchored) , he should just have seen my Lorna, after a fortnight of our life, and freedom from anxiety. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ Then Lorna came and glorified me, for I had predicted a change of weather, more to keep their spirits up, than with real hope of it; and then came Annie blushing shyly, as I looked at her, and said that Winnie would soon have four legs now. This referred to some stupid joke made by John Fry or somebody, that in this weather a man had no legs, and a horse had only two. ”

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R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone — 45. A change long needed (1869)

“ We say that thus we keep them warmer, both for cattle and for men, in the time of winter, and cooler in the summer-time. This I will not contradict, though having my own opinion; but it seems to me to be a relic of the time when people in the western countries lived in caves beneath the ground, and blocked the mouths with neat-skins.
Let that question still abide, for men who study ancient times to inform me, if they will ”

R. D. Blackmore

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