Thro' Lattice-Windows

The heroine of a modern novel is always "divinely tall (она всегда «изумительно высока»; divinely божественно, изумительно, превосходно)," and she is ever "drawing herself up to her full height (и постоянно «выпрямляется во весь рост»)." At the "Barley Mow" she would bump her head against the ceiling each time she did this (в «Ячменном стоге» она бы ударялась головой о потолок каждый раз при этом). heroine [xherЌun] height [hat] ceiling [xsi:lы] Round Clifton Hampden, itself a wonderfully pretty village, old-fashioned, peaceful, and dainty with flowers, the river scenery is rich and beautiful. If you stay the night on land at Clifton, you cannot do better than put up at the "Barley Mow." It is, without exception, I should say, the quaintest, most old-world inn up the river. It stands on the right of the bridge, quite away from the village. Its low-pitched gables and thatched roof and latticed windows give it quite a story-book appearance, while inside it is even still more once-upon-a-timeyfied. It would not be a good place for the heroine of a modern novel to stay at ...»