A Question - Rilegato

Ebers, Georg

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1421803437 ISBN 13: 9781421803432

Casa editrice: 1st World Library, 2006

Riassunto

"Salt sea-water or oil, it's all the same to you! Haven't I put my lamp out long ago? Doesn't the fire on the hearth give light enough? Are your eyes so drowsy that they don't see the dawn shining in upon us more and more brightly? The olives are not yet pressed, and the old oil is getting toward the dregs. Besides, you know how much fruit those abominable thieves have stolen. But sparrows will carry grain into the barn before you'll try to save your master's property!" So Semestre, the ancient house-keeper of Lysander of Syracuse, scolded the two maids, Chloris and Dorippe, who, unheeding the smoking wicks of their lamps, were wearily turning the hand-mills. Dorippe, the younger of the two, grasped her disordered black tresses, over which thousands of rebellious little hairs seemed to weave a veil of mist, drew from the mass of curls falling on her neck a bronze arrow, with which she extinguished the feeble light of both lamps, and, turning to the house-keeper, said:

Su questa edizione

• Editore: 1st World Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1421803437
• ISBN 13: 9781421803432
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 108