 | Gerald Monsman - 1984 - 184 pages
...it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall, the...modern invention in its stead, with no story upon it. (2: 100-101) Only those relationships created by loss can endow the surface world with story, for narrative... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 220 pages
...it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall, the whole story down to the Robin-Redbreasts ! till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set up a marble one of modern invention... | |
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Certain it is that the whole story of the children and their cruel uncle was to be seen fairly carved out in wood upon the chimney-piece of the great hall, the whole story down to the Robin Redbreasts, till a foolish rich person pulled it down to set... 
