[Gutenberg 47211] • The Idol of the Blind: A Novel

Excerpt from The Idol of the Blind a Novel

It was a quaint old town, a place of red roofs and winding streets and strange old buildings; a very para dise to the dreamer and the woman who had waited so long for him. Her brother's house stood at the far end of the town, in the newer part of it; but they saw little of him, and had, indeed, no particular desire to do so. They had their own quiet dwelling-place, a little house nestling under the frowning shadows of the church wherein he worked; a strange old place, with low ceilings and black beams, with a garden of roses stretching right along under the gray old church wall. Her life, for a few months at least, was a sweet and shadowed thing; people said afterward - people who had never known her that they had seen her Sitting often in the old church, with her mild eyes looking upward at a great rose win dow over the porch, while her husband practised for the services on the wheezy Old organ; had seen her wandering in her garden among the roses, singing to herself in a subdued voice - the voice of one who has long been forced to be Silent, or to subdue any natural mirth that might be in her.

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