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Vacation Rambles

Thomas Hughes

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .We had made up our minds to be disappointed with the place, and so were not sorry to be out of sight of it, and the olive groves were quite new to us. Some of the old trees were very striking. They were quite hollow, but bearing crops of fruit still quite merrily, as if it were all right, and what was left of the trunk was all divided into grisly old fretwork, as if each root had just run up independently into a branch, and had never really formed part of the tree. They looked as if they might be any age—could Plato have sat or walked under some of them?

Vines grow under the olives, just as currant and gooseberry bushes under the fruit-trees in our market gardens. They were loaded with fine grapes, and the vintage was going lazily on here and there. There were pomegranates too scattered about, the fruit splitting with ripeness. It was tremendously hot, but the air so ligh. . . Read More

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- Mbuye - Jan 03, 2024

The author is more famous for his ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’, but both books are true to history and better classified as non-fiction, although they both wear the fig leaf of a narrative to arrest the reader’s attention.

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