Strangers at Lisconnel

Barlow, Jane · 1917

Produced by Melissa Er-Raqabi, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net To Lisconnel, our very small hamlet in the middle of a wide bogland, the days that break over the dim blue hill-line, faint and far off, seldom bring a stranger's face; but then they seldom take a familiar one away, beyond reach, at any rate of return before nightfall. In fact, there are few places amid this mortal change to which we may come back after any reasonable interval with more confidence of finding things just as we left them, due allowance being made for the inevitable fingering of Time. We shall find some old people who have aged under it, and some who, as certain philos…

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