[The Golden Scarecrow by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Golden Scarecrow CHAPTER I 21/33
She took him in her arms for a moment, turned his pillows, then layed him down again.
As he settled down into comfort he saw his Friend, huge, a great shadow, mingling with the coloured lights of the flaming sky.
All the world was lit, the white room glowed.
A pleasant smell was in his nostrils. "Where are all the others? They would like to share this pleasant moment, and I would warn them about the unpleasant ones." "They are coming, some of them.
I am with them as I am with you." Swinging across the Square were the evening bells of St.Matthew's. Henry Fitzgeorge smiled, then chuckled, then dozed into a pleasant sleep. IV Asleep, awake, it had been for the most part the same to him.
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