Anne Louise Averyさんのイラストまとめ

Cloud Shadows
Nina Winder Reid (1891–1975)
ca. 1930-36
Bewdley Museum

Ermine was tucked up in bed reading Katherine Mansfield. The windows were open & she could hear her neighbour's music, snatches carrying faintly on the breeze. "When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night...Backwater blues done call me to pack my things and go."

The Sea Otter's comfortable cottage had been built in 1905. It had a lovely wide balcony on the second floor, with a view of the estuary as it flowed slow into the sea. He always took his morning coffee there (black, strong as night) & watched the boats passing far below.

Past midnight, but Old Fox had walked down to the church. He unlocked the heavy Norman door & lit the oil lamps. Then he sat under the wall painting of the great angel Michael & prayed as hard as he could. Prayed for his friends, prayed for his village, prayed for the world.

Ohara Koson (小原 古邨 1877-1945)
Fox in the reeds
ca. 1930

Old Fox had received a heavy parcel from a friend in Hampstead. Detective books, Italian coffee & Viennese lemon biscuits, large handkerchiefs, very strong cough medicine & a packet of antibiotics-just-in-case. How kind! said Pine Marten. Yes, indeed, said Old Fox, yes, indeed.

Invigorated by the sea air, Ermine had arrived home to find that her delivery of roses had arrived. She had devised a highly-perfumed, snow-white rose garden through which she could wander on summer evenings – Princess Lamballe, Blanche d'Avilliers, La Neige, Reine des Belges....

Violas in a Window
Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981)
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery

Old Fox had gone back up into the attic to find a rose-papered box he hadn't opened for 32 years. It contained letters & photographs, a watch & some ties & sprigs of dried larkspur. The delicate mementos of a dear friend, taken too young by another grasping virus, in another age.

Wolf was as angry as the storm raging across the fields. He lashed out at Old Fox, raining blows & trying to bite him, but Old Fox stayed calm & waited it out. Afterwards, grasping his tea, Wolf cried & said I don't remember why I was upset, I don't remember anything at all.