Part of the furniture

" Juno murmured, ‘Smells,’ aware that scent, beginning with the first primrose, had contributed much to her happiness in recent months—grass after rain, freshly tilled earth between rows of vegetables, the sharp tang of box, the stuffy smell of hen where an obstinate fowl laid a daily egg in Millicent’s manger, horse shit, cowpats, the stink of fox in the wood, cows’ breath, the warm smell of pig, the tang of sheep, the crazy mix of lilac, roses, honeysuckle and wisteria which drifted in at her window as the wall of the house cooled, the secret whiff of bluebells under the beeches in the wood, the sharp tang of freshly chopped logs and the salt breeze on the cliff where she had sat with Robert and, in the house itself, wood smoke, Ann’s cooking, the reassuring comfort, if he was near, of Robert’s shaving cream and Pears soap."

Mary Wesley, Part of the furniture.

Les odeurs qui rendent Junon heureuse...

J'avais envie de le lire en anglais.

Comments

[Pivoine]

Bonjour Heure Bleue. Tu lis Mary Wesley ? Jusqu'à présent l'histoire de Junon est ma préférée... mais je ne lis ce livre qu'à la bibliothèque... alors...

[heure-bleue]

Je les lis en français, j'adore.

[Pivoine]

Quand je connais la version française par coeur... oui :-)

[anemone]

Bravo! Je ne savais pas que tu lisais l'anglais. Admiration!