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Title: The Three Sisters
Author: May Sinclair
Release Date: April 3, 2004 [eBook #11876]
Language: English
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THE THREE SISTERS
BY
MAY SINCLAIR
1914



THE THREE SISTERS
I

North of east, in the bottom, where the road drops from the High Moor,
is the village of Garth in Garthdale.
It crouches there with a crook of the dale behind and before it,
between half-shut doors of the west and south. Under the mystery and
terror of its solitude it crouches, like a beaten thing, cowering from
its topmost roof to the bowed back of its stone bridge.
It is the last village up Garthdale; a handful of gray houses, old
and small and humble. The high road casts them off and they turn their
backs to it in their fear and huddle together, humbly, down by the
beck. Their stone roofs and walls are naked and blackened by wind and
rain as if fire had passed over them.
They have the silence, the darkness and the secrecy of all ultimate
habitations.
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