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CECILIA DE NOËL by Lanoe Falconer
Sep. 20th, 2013 06:47 amThis 1910 book is a good ghost story. While it's not the greatest ghost story I've ever read, it is well written--and what really touched me were the theological issues it pencils into the story with a light touch. There's nothing much complex or academically weighty here, but there is much of humanity and interest. There's notions of God and notions of love and the way it culminates is fitting. The story's beautiful.
The setting is England. Cecilia de Noël believes in a church where "they climb trees and make toffee on Sundays". The narrator has a crippled leg and feels confusion. Other clergy and laypeople have a range of other opinions. Mrs Mallet can make curries and omelets that must absolve her from all crimes.
The story begins with an atheist's expounding followed by a mysterious howling and a cook's severe fright...
"There is no revelation but that of science," said Atherley.
It was after dinner in the drawing-room. From the cold of the early spring night, closed shutters and drawn curtains carefully protected us; shaded lamps and a wood fire diffused an exquisite twilight; we breathed a mild and even balmy atmosphere scented with hothouse flowers.
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The setting is England. Cecilia de Noël believes in a church where "they climb trees and make toffee on Sundays". The narrator has a crippled leg and feels confusion. Other clergy and laypeople have a range of other opinions. Mrs Mallet can make curries and omelets that must absolve her from all crimes.
The story begins with an atheist's expounding followed by a mysterious howling and a cook's severe fright...
"There is no revelation but that of science," said Atherley.
It was after dinner in the drawing-room. From the cold of the early spring night, closed shutters and drawn curtains carefully protected us; shaded lamps and a wood fire diffused an exquisite twilight; we breathed a mild and even balmy atmosphere scented with hothouse flowers.
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