The Emperor of Portugallia. Selma Lagerlöf
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Selma Lagerlöf
The Emperor of Portugallia
Translator: Velma Swanston Howard
e-artnow, 2020
Contact: [email protected]
EAN 4064066057695
Table of Contents
BOOK ONE
THE BEATING HEART
Jan of Ruffluck Croft never tired of telling about the day when his little girl came into the world. In the early morning he had been to fetch the midwife, and other helpers; all the forenoon and a good part of the afternoon he had sat on the chopping-block, in the woodshed, with nothing to do but to wait.
Outside it rained in torrents and he came in for his share of the downpour, although he was said to be under cover. The rain reached him in the guise of dampness through cracks in the walls and as drops from a leaky roof, then all at once, through