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Vignettes - Hubert Crackanthorpe
Hubert Crackanthorpe
Vignettes: A Miniature Journal of Whim and Sentiment
Published by Good Press, 2022
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EAN 4057664112514
Table of Contents
AT VILLENEUVE-LÈS AVIGNON
ASCENSION DAY AT ARLES
SPRING IN BÉARN
IN THE LONG GRASS
PAU
CASTELSARRASIN
IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY
IN THE LANDES
CETTE
ON CHELSEA EMBANKMENT
PLEASANT COURT
THE FIVE SISTER PANSIES
OUR LADY OF THE LANE
ON THE COAST OF CALVADOS
IN NORMANDY
PARIS IN OCTOBER
LA CÔTE D’OR FROM THE TRAIN
LAUSANNE
OLD MARSEILLES AT MIDDAY
MONTE CARLO
AT THE CERTOSA DI VAL D’EMA
MORNING AT CASTELLO
IN THE CAMPO SANTO AT PERUGIA
NAPLES IN NOVEMBER
From Posilipo
In the Strada del Porto
Moonlight
At the Theatre Manzoni
POMPEII
IN THE BAY OF SALERNO
SEVILLE DANCING GIRLS
SUNRISE
OFF CAPE TRAFALGAR
RÊVERIE
IN RICHMOND PARK
NEW YEAR’S EVE
IN ST. JAMES’S PARK
IN THE STRAND
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
RÊVERIE
ENFANTILLAGE
Vignettes
AT VILLENEUVE-LÈS AVIGNON
Table of Contents
April 23
On the roof of the ruined church we lay, basking amid the hot, powdery heather; the cinder-coloured roofs of the town flattened out beneath us—a ragged patch of dead, decayed colour, burnt, as it seemed, out of the rank, luscious green of the Rhône valley. Overhead, a thick, blue sky hung heavy, and away and away, into the steamy haze of midday heat, filtered the Tarascon road, a streak of dazzling white. To the east, the sun was beating on the sandy slopes; to the west, the old Papal palace, like a great, grey, sleeping beast, lifted its long, bare back above the roofs of Avignon.
The lizards scurried from cranny to cranny across the crumbling wall. Below, in the cloister, a cat was curled by a black stack of brushwood. The little place stood empty, and stillness seemed to have fallen over all things.
The warmth lulled one to a delicious torpor. I was thinking of the bustling Regent Street pavement, of the rumble of Piccadilly, of newsboys yelling special editions in the Strand, drowsily conjuring up these and other commonplace contrasts.
Then Jeanne-Marie Latou began to speak. She sat between us, with her legs hunched under her coarse, colourless skirt, and some stray wisps of hair looking dingily yellow against the clean white of her coiffe. As she talked, her brown skin puckered oddly about her tiny, shrunken eyes, and her hands—browned also and squat—clasped themselves around her knees. It was not often that Jeanne-Marie Latou spoke French; her vocabulary was quite simple and limited, and every now and then, with an impatient shake of her head, she would break out into patois.
She was telling us of her nephew in Tunis—"Un pays où on ne voit que des sauvages"—and of the sweetheart he had left behind at Barbentane; repeating by heart, one after another, his queer, bald, little letters—how he had been kicked by his horse (he was a spahi; "zouave à cheval" she called it), and had been sick ten days in the hospital; and how, without telling anyone, she had scraped together a hundred sous to send out to him. Somehow, irresistibly, while she chattered, I seemed to see that soldier nephew of hers—broad and straight and bronzed, his fez stuck jauntily on the back of his head, noisily noçant avec des camarades with those hundred sous, which old Tante Latou had sent out to him.
By-and-bye,