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Simple Gifts (1977)
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This is the Public Broadcasting Service in Cleveland you are watching your community television station this is WBZ. TV great Frost was historians tell us most of the other does ever visited these islands birds frozen me there and she likes turns to the ground at Norwich a young country woman started to cross the road in her usual robust health I was seen by the onlookers to terms visibility powder blown in a puff of dust over the roofs as the icy blast trust her at the street corner mortality among sheep and cattle was enormous corpses pros who could not be drawn from the sheets feels full of shepherds club and teams of horses and little bird scaring boys all trucks start and the acts of the moment one with his hand to his nose another was a bottle to his lips a third the stone raised the throat the. Raven who'd said as if stuffed upon the head within a yard of him the severity of the frost was so extraordinary but the kind of petrifaction sometimes ensued and it was commonly supposed thus a great increase of rocks in some parts of Derbyshire was due no eruption for there was none but it's a solidification unfortunate Wayfarers who had been literally turned to stone where this toy but while the country people suffered the extremity of one and the trade of the country was such a standstill London enjoy the carnival of the utmost brilliant the new king sees the opportunity that his coronation had given him dick Sarajevo was the citizens by directing the Thames River which was frozen to a depth 20 feet or more six or seven miles on either side be swept decorated and given all the semblance for power call pleasure ground with arbors mazes alleys drinking booze etc earth is expense reeled off from the public only by a silken rope the pleasure ground became at once the center of the most brilliant society nothing could exceed the brilliance and gaiety of the scene by day and it was at night at the carnival are such canarians moon and stars blaze the hard fixity of diamonds into the fine music of the flute in the trumpet Orlando it is true was none of those who tread light share the Koran tone the LA. Volta he was clumsy and a little absent-minded he had indeed just bought his feet together about 6:00 in the evening of the 7th of January at the finish of some such good drill or minuet when he beheld coming from the muscovite embassy a figure rich with a boys or woman's for the loose tunic and trousers of the Russian fashion served the disguise for sex fill him with the highest curiosity the person whatever the name or set the bottom it'll hide fear if slenderly fashion and rest entirely an oyster colored velvet trimmed with some unfamiliar greenish colored fur these details are obscured by the extraordinary seductiveness which issued from the whole person images metaphors are the most extreme and extravagant grind and twisted in his mind a fella a pineapple an olive tree an emerald and a fox in the snow or in the space of three seconds he does not know whether he had heard her tasted her seen her or all three together finally the unknown skated came to a standstill she was not a hands breadth away she was okay we'll Avante to move past a distilled she are a victim pokemon plays in without he replied speaking French for the perfect accent strangest name he found was princess barouche Castella slavka Dyckman etosha. Ileana romanovitch and she'd come in the train of the muscovite ambassador who was her uncle perhaps Oh. Babs her father to attend the coronation nothing however she seems um voluptuous something she did the green flame seeing the Sun imprisoned in a hill was only outwards within was a wandering flame it came it went the play was ancient all had grown dark but it was such a night as this that they had waited for it was on such a night as this that they had planned to fly at midnight they would meet at an inn near Blackfriars horses waited there everything was in readiness for their flights Sunday he was struck in the face by a blood soft yet hinted on the side of his feet so strong with expectation was he discussing put his hand to stalled the blower's repeated a dozen times on forehead and cheeks the dry Frost has lasted so long it took him a military Eliza these were raindrops falling the blow for the blows of the rain but first they fell snow deliberately one by one but two hundred six drops became sixty then 600 then ran themselves together musta ditched out of water. It was as if the hardened consolidated sky for itself forty-one profuse pumping in the space of five minutes Orlando acceptable skin some blind is too she was passed easily with some driven him to take the river bank in the direction of the sea when the dawn broke which is did unusual suddenness sky turning a pale yellow the rain almost teasing found himself on the banks of the Thames off walking our sights most extraordinary nature met his eyes is and astounded all and who do nothing sometime was your pudding miss forces as it held itself past him last seeming to recollect himself he kept Spurs to his horse and galloped hard along the riverbank in the direction of the sea rounding a bend of the river came opposite that breach where not two days ago the ships of the ambassador's have seen a movable frozen easterly he made count of them all the French the Spanish the Austrian the Turk all still floated but the Russian ship is nowhere to be seen |
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