Mary Barton

By: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Book Excerpt: almost visibly fluttered into life; and the willows, which that morning had had only a brown reflection in the waterbelow, were now of that tender grey-green which blends so delicatelywith the spring harmony of colours.Groups of merry and somewhat loud-talking girls, whose ages mightrange from twelve to twenty, came by with a buoyant step. They weremost of them factory girls, and wore the usual out-of-doors dress ofthat particular class of maidens; namely, a shawl, which at middayor in fine weather was allowed to be merely a shawl, but towardsevening, if the day was chilly, became a sort of Spanish mantilla orScotch plaid, and was brought over the head and hung loosely down, or was pinned under the chin in no unpicturesque fashion.Their faces were not remarkable for beauty; indeed, they were belowthe average, with one or two exceptions; they had dark hair, neatlyand classically arranged, dark eyes, but sallow complexions andirregular features. The only thing to strike a passer-by was anaRead Mo

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798718741346
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"