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Sheila Kaye-Smith
Gallybird
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338075659
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CHAPTER ONE
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Old Gervase Alard was walking through Leasan. He did not strictly deserve to be called old, for he was no more than fifty-six; but lately old age seemed to have come down on him like a September frost, showing itself less in any whitening and withering than in a queer twisting, a subtle turning of his mind and body toward winter.
He walked with his cassock and gown bundled up round his haunches, so that his long legs could stride their way over the ruts. In his right hand he clutched a holly stick, which was less a help to his legs than an accent to his thoughts, for it was more often in the air than on the ground—waving and twirling and beating about, as his thoughts took him here and there and up and down, in and out of the little houses and far away across the water.