Inn of Tranquillity

Project Gutenberg's Inn of Tranquility and Other Essays, by John GalsworthyThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Inn of Tranquility and Other EssaysAuthor: John GalsworthyRelease Date: October 27, 2004 [EBook #2903]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INN OF TRANQUILITY AND OTHERS ***Produced by David WidgerSTUDIES AND ESSAYSBy John Galsworthy "Je vous dirai que l'exces est toujours un mal." —ANATOLE FRANCECONCERNING LIFETABLE OF CONTENTS: INN OF TRANQUILITY MAGPIE OVER THE HILL SHEEP-SHEARINGEVOLUTION RIDING IN THE MIST THE PROCESSION A CHRISTIAN WIND IN THE ROCKS MYDISTANT RELATIVE THE BLACK GODMOTHERTHE INN OF TRANQUILLITYUnder a burning blue sky, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast, wecame one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend: "Osteria di Tranquillita,"; and, partly because of the name,and partly because we did not expect to find a house at all in those goat-haunted groves above the waves, we tarriedfor contemplation. To the familiar simplicity of that Italian building there were not lacking signs of a certain spiritualchange, for out of the olive-grove which grew to its very doors a skittle-alley had been ...