Джордж
Элиот - псевдоним английской писательницы, журналистки и переводчицы
Мэри Энн Эванс (1819 - 1880). Она использовала мужской псевдоним, так
как считала, что иначе её произведения не будут восприниматься всерьёз.
Давайте познакомимся с текстом её романа “Мельница на Флоссе”.
(...) And
this is Dorlcote Mill. I must stand a minute or two here on the bridge
and look at it, though the clouds are threatening, and it is far on in
the afternoon.
Even
in this leafless time of departing February it is pleasant to look at, -
perhaps the chill, damp season adds a charm to the trimly kept,
comfortable dwelling house, as old as the elms and chestnuts that
shelter it from the northern blast.
The
stream is brimful now, and lies high in this little withy plantation,
and half drowns the grassy fringe of the croft in front of the house.
As
I look at the full stream, the vivid grass, the delicate bright-green
powder softening the outline of the great trunks and branches that gleam
from under the bare purple boughs, I am in love with moistness, and
envy the white ducks that are dipping their heads far into the water
here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in
the drier world above. (...)
