The Apple Tree

THE APPLE TREE The Apple-tree, the singing and the gold. -- Murrays Hippolytus Of Euripides. In their silver-wedding day Ashurst and his matrimonial woman were motoring aprospicient the outskirts of the moor, intending to crown the festival by grace the night at Torquay, whither they had first met. This was the idea of Stella Ashurst, whose character contained a streak of sentiment. If she had long lost the blue-eyed, flower- manage charm, the cool decoct rectitude of face and form, the apple-blossom colouring, which had so swiftly and so queerly bear on Ashurst twenty-six years ago, she was still at forty-three a comely and faithful companion, whose cheeks were faintly mottled, and whose grey-blue look had acquired a authentic amplyness. It was she who had stopped the car where the common go steeply to the left, and a particularise strip of larch and beech, with here and there a pine, stretched out towards the valley between the street and the first long high h ill of the full moor.

She was flavor for a flummox where they might lunch, for Ashurst never looked for anything; and this, between the prosperous furze and the plumelike green larches smelling of lemons in the sound sun of April--this, with a view into the deep valley and up to the long moor heights, seemed fitting to the decisive nature of single who sketched in water-colours, and love romantic spots. Grasping her paint box, she got out. Wont this do, candid? Ashurst, rather like a rim Schiller, grey in the wings, tall, long-legged, with large removed(p) grey eyes which sometimes filled with heart and soul and became roughly beautiful, with nose a little to one side, and be arded lips clean open--Ashurst, forty-eight! , and silent, grasped the luncheon basket, and got out too. Oh! Look, Frank! A wicked! By the side of the road, where the track from the top of the common cover it at right angles and ran through a gate prehistorical the narrow wood, was a thin mound of turf, six feet by one, with a moorstone to the west, and on it someone had thrown...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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