ACROSS THE STREAM
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Publication Date: 2015-08-20
File Size: 348 KB
Print Length: 241 pages
Publisher: Muncha Media
Language: English
Full Description
Certain scenes, certain pictures of his very
early years of childhood, stood out for Archie, when he came to the mature age
of eight or nine, above the dim clouds that engulfed the time when the power of
memory was only beginning to germinate. He had no doubt (and was probably right
about it) as to which the earliest of those was: it was the face of his nurse
Blessington leaning over his crib. She held a candle in her hand which a little
dazzled him, but the sight of her face, tender and anxious and divinely
reassuring, was the point of that memory. He had been asleep, and had awoke
with a start, and finding himself alone in the midst of the immense desolation
of the dark that pressed like an invader from all sides onto him, he had lifted
up his voice and yelled. Then as by a conjuring- trick Blessington had appeared
with her comforting presence that quite robbed the dark of its terrors. It must
still have been early in the night, for she had not yet gone to bed, and had on
above her smooth grey hair her cap with its adorable blue ribands in it. At her
throat was the brooch made of the same stuff as the shining shillings with
which a year or two later she bought the buns and sponge-cakes for tea. He
remembered no more than that, he knew nothing of what she had said: the whole
of that memory consisted in the fact of the entire comfort and relief which her
face brought. It was just a vignette of memory, the earliest of all; there was
nothing whatever before it, and for some time nothing after.
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