The Death of the Heart - Elizabeth Bowen
THE DEATH OF
THE HEART
ELIZABETH BOWEN
THE WORLD
I
THAT morning's ice, no more than a brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments. These tapped together or, parting, left channels of dark water, down which swans in slow indignation swam. The island stood in frozen woody brown dusk: it was now between three and four in the afternoon. A sort of breath from the clay, from the city outside the park, condensing, made the air unclear; through this, the trees round t ...