[1492 by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link book1492 CHAPTER III 11/19
He can hardly make it so that any may recognize." It was resting time and the man attracted.
I agreed, if he would take no more than an hour. "The drawing, no!--Bent far over, gathering the net strongly--Andrew or Mark perhaps, since, traditionally, John must have youth." He had continued to study me all this time, and now we left the road and moved over the plain to the stream that here widened into a pool fringed with rushes and a few twisted trees.
An ancient, half-sunken boat drowsing under the bank he hailed again in the name of Saint Christopher.
Dismounting, he fastened his mule to a willow and proceeded to place me, then himself found a root of a tree, and taking out his knife fell to sharpening pencil.
This done, he rested book against knee and began to draw. Having made his figure in one posture he rose and showed me another and drew his fisherman so.
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