Herb of Grace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781523971831)

From boyhood Malcolm Herrick had been a lover of the picturesque. In secret he prided himself on possessing the artistic faculty, and yet, except in the nursery, he had never drawn a line, or later on spoilt canvas and daubed himself in oils under the idea that he was an embryo Millais or Turner. But nevertheless he had the seeing eye, and could find beauty where more prosaic people could only see barrenness: a stubble field newly turned up by the plough moved him to admiration, while a Surrey lane, with a gate swinging back on its hinges, and a bowed old man carrying faggots, in the smoky light of an October evening, gave him a feeling akin to ecstasy. More than one of his school-fellows remembered how, even in the cricket field, he would stand as though transfixed, looking at the storm clouds, with their steely edges, coming up behind the copse, but the palms of his hands were outstretched and he never failed to catch the ball.

Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
ISBN-10: 1523971835
ISBN-13: 9781523971831
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2016
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.27d