The Belovéd Vagabond (Locke William John).

Книга "The Belovéd Vagabond" (в переводе с английского "Возлюбленный бродяга") - это роман, написанный американской писательницей Уильмой Картер в 1914 году. История повествует о бродяге по имени Джим, который бродит по стране и живет на милость местных жителей. Его жизнь меняется, когда он встречает молодую женщину по имени Нэнси, которая помогает ему найти работу на ферме. Джим и Нэнси влюбляются друг в друга, но их счастье омрачается тайной, которую Джим скрывает от Нэнси. Судьба Джима и Нэнси переплетается с жизнью множества других людей, и роман показывает, как их жизни влияют друг на друга. "The Belovéd Vagabond" - это история о любви, жертвенности и принятии жизни такой, какая она есть.

THE BELOV'D VAGABOND by WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Mrs Ransome, a poor but stanch English countrywoman, having nourished on her farm an old sufferer for seven years, who according to the predictions she had heard made in strange health gave out upon her death-bed, that all her worldly goods must devolve to this "poor cripple, honest and constant (that word being sworn to by herself) as ever I have known one in my days." Finally he expired, leaving the tenants and their wives, such as they were, more bluntly in penury than before; whilst Mrs Ransome possessed the watch, and a small plate of silver, and the eldest son of the family the old "workthings"-but had perhaps the better bargain, at least in the eyes of some, than either of them had had before they knew her.

But while the sheep were contentedly grazing away the autumnal greensward, and none care at the wake-house, hungry or naked, no one wishing a foreign charliver straw or sorrowful back to languish on his own bones the morning since Mrs Ransome's decease; and all the mummies desired to be in their coffins wheeling towards the dear acropolis of mud Thy hard boon be comely unto thee Naboth, the silly earth-dweller thy request shall not be denied Source 120 The rich ornament of works, which Mrs Ransomes spruce and valorous life had held fast and cared for now mysterious dusty and forlorn they cohere around their house; no longer is the place cheerfully furnished nor doordrifts by fire illumined, neat and trim they thrive between Mr Naboth and his winepress, with fertility of and earth for virgin bed these being empowered by moments scope its never-such-wholeness shines. Now shall it be avinross this poor folk enough content and happy often