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The squire's voice was strongly toned with the local accent so that he said 'drains' and 'geats' like the rustics on his estate.
Thomas Hardy, "The Waiting Supper," from The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy, MacMillan & Co., London, 1928, p. 736.
TIME: mid 1800's
PLACE: Elsenford, a country village in the south of England
CIRCUMSTANCE: a wealthy squire
The small stars filled in between the larger, the nebulae between the smaller stars, the trees quite lost their voice; and if there was still a sound, it was from the cascade of a stream which stretched along under the trees that bounded the lawn on its northern side.
Thomas Hardy, "The Waiting Supper," from The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy, MacMillan and Co., London, 1928, p. 736-737.
TIME: mid 1800's
PLACE: a country village in the south of England
--Elsenford--an ordinary farmstead, from the back of which rose indistinct breathings, belchings and snortings, the rattle of halters, and other familiar features of an agriculturist's home.
TIME: mid 1800's
PLACE: a country estate in the south of England
Thomas Hardy, "The Waiting Supper," from The Short Stories of Thomas Hardy, MacMillan and Co., London, 1928, p. 743.
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