The Valley of Decision: Large Print

By: Wharton, Edith

It was very still in the small neglected chapel. The noises of the farm came faintly throughclosed doors-voices shouting at the oxen in the lower fields, the querulous bark of the oldhouse-dog, and Filomena's angry calls to the little white-faced foundling in the kitchen.The February day was closing, and a ray of sunshine, slanting through a slit in the chapelwall, brought out the vision of a pale haloed head floating against the dusky background of thechancel like a water-lily on its leaf. The face was that of the saint of Assisi-a sunken ravagedcountenance, lit with an ecstasy of suffering that seemed not so much to reflect the anguish of theChrist at whose feet the saint knelt, as the mute pain of all poor down-trodden folk on earth.When the small Odo Valsecca-the only frequenter of the chapel-had been taunted by thefarmer's wife for being a beggar's brat, or when his ears were tingling from the heavy hand of thefarmer's son, he found a melancholy kinship in that suffering face; but since he had fightingblood in him too, coming on the mother's side of the rude Piedmontese stock of the Marquessesdi Donnaz, there were other moods when he turned instead to the stout Saint George in goldarmour, just discernible through the grime and dust of the opposite wall.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R6MTC78
• ISBN13: 9798584151010
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"