Sunday, March 15, 2009

Edward Hopper Summer Interior

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where the third man had been.
There was the distant drumming of hooves on the turf, and then silence.
Nanny Ogg hobbled forward.
'I could catch him,' she said. 'What do you think?'
Granny shook her head. She sat down on a rock and looked at the child in her arms. It was a boy, no more than two years old, and quite naked under the blanket. She rocked him vaguely and stared at nothing.
Nanny Ogg examined the two corpses with the air of one for whom laying-out holds no fears.
'Perhaps they were bandits,' said Magrat tremulously.
Nanny now, and the watery moon shed a thin gruel of light over the damp moorland. It also gleamed off what was, without any doubt, an extremely important crown.
'It's a crown,' said Magrat. 'It's got all spiky bits on it.'shook her head.'A strange thing,' she said. 'They both wear this same badge. Two bears on a black and gold shield. Anyone know what that means?''It's the badge of King Verence,' said Magrat.'Who's he?' said Granny Weatherwax.'He rules this country,' said Magrat.'Oh. That king,' said Granny, as if the matter was hardly worth noting.'Soldiers fighting one another. Doesn't make sense,' said Nanny Ogg. 'Magrat, you have a look in the coach.'The youngest witch poked around inside the bodywork and came back with a sack. She upended it, and something thudded on to the turf.The storm had rumbled off to the other side of the mountain

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