Crucial Instances

By: Wharton, Edith

Have you ever questioned the long shuttered front of an old Italian house, that motionless mask, smooth, mute, equivocal as the face of a priest behind which buzz the secrets of the confessional? Other houses declare the activities they shelter; they are the clear expressive cuticle of a life flowing close to the surface; but the old palace in its narrow street, the villa on its cypress-hooded hill, are as impenetrable as death. The tall windows are like blind eyes, the great door is a shut mouth. Inside there may be sunshine, the scent of myrtles, and a pulse of life through all the arteries of the huge frame; or a mortal solitude, where bats lodge in the disjointed stones and the keys rust in unused doors... .

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R1BFX47
• ISBN13: 9798583302772
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"