Frobisher's Savage
“Joan and Matthew were with Dees in the creaking wagon while Crookback’s grieving daughters and sons-in-law followed on horseback. Adam and Nicholas and about a dozen other men whom the cold and gathering darkness had not driven earlier to home and hearth completed the company. Some on horses, some on foot, but all silent and respectful of the lumbering wagon’s mortal burden.
After a long winter, the road was in poor condition, full of ruts and holes, and the little company traveled slowly. A mist covered the sky; there was neither moon nor stars. A witness to this procession, standing by the roadside and cold sober, would have crossed himself thrice over and evoked a dozen saints, no matter how skeptical about the old religion.
When they arrived in the High Street it was clear that rumor’s thousand tongues had done their work. Everyone was out of his house despite the cold, standing along the street, in doorways, or upon the comers, or half tumbling out of upstairs windows, wa...tching the procession with lantern or torch in hand and in grim silence, as though the Crookbacks had been gentry and not yeoman farmers.MoreLess
After a long winter, the road was in poor condition, full of ruts and holes, and the little company traveled slowly. A mist covered the sky; there was neither moon nor stars. A witness to this procession, standing by the roadside and cold sober, would have crossed himself thrice over and evoked a dozen saints, no matter how skeptical about the old religion.
When they arrived in the High Street it was clear that rumor’s thousand tongues had done their work. Everyone was out of his house despite the cold, standing along the street, in doorways, or upon the comers, or half tumbling out of upstairs windows, wa...tching the procession with lantern or torch in hand and in grim silence, as though the Crookbacks had been gentry and not yeoman farmers.MoreLess
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