06-26-2011, 08:30 PM
(06-25-2011, 12:50 PM)Jojo Lapin X Wrote: Mary Stewart's NINE COACHES WAITING (1958) actually has a scene exactly like that:
Quote:Clutching at my hand, and panting, Philippe climbed gamely beside me. We turned once to look at Valmy. On the far side of the valley the château, catching the moon, swam pale above its own woods, its side stabbed with a single light. Léon de Valmy still waited. [p 234 of the Chicago Review Press edition]
Ha! I wonder if that's where the trend started! (One reader's cliché is another's tradition.)
