Phantastes, A Faerie Romance by George MacDonald (tharntype novel english .TXT) 📕

easily expelled, and had dyed with blackness the walls towhich, bat-like, it had clung, these tapers served but ill tolight up the gloomy hangings, and seemed to throw yet darkershadows into the hollows of the deep-wrought cornice. All thefurther portions of the room lay shrouded in a mystery whosedeepest folds were gathered around the dark oak cabinet which Inow approached with a strange mingling of reverence andcuriosity. Perhaps, like a geologist, I was about to turn up tothe light some of the buried strata of the human world, with itsfossil remains charred by passion and petrified by tears.Perhaps I was to learn how my father, whose personal history wasunknown to me, had woven his web of story; how he had found theworld, and how the world had left him. Perhaps I was to findonly the records of lands and moneys, how gotten and how secured;coming down from strange men, and through troublous times, to me,who knew little or nothing of them all. To solve myspeculations, and to dispel the a