![]() ![]() ![]() 'No,' Barney said aloud, and he shook himself. ![]() The angular brown face seemed more than ever like an old, old carving, deep eyes shadowed and mysterious above the fierce nose. Only at the very end does Barney say softly to himself: 'Merriman Lyon.Merry .' He looked across the room to where Great-Uncle Merry's white head towered over the rest slightly bent as he listened to what someone else was saying. Fortunately they have the protection of their impenetrable Great Uncle Merry who seems to know more about their oppressors than he is willing to reveal.Īnd in this first book of The Dark is Rising sequence, meeting Great Uncle Merry is a bit like bumping into an iceberg floating in the ocean, because two thirds of the character is submerged. For it is they who find the mysterious manuscript in the attic of their holiday house, and that leads them through many dangers to Arthur's Grail, hidden for many ages over sea and under stone. When the age old legend of King Arthur's battle for Good against the forces of Evil springs into life again in modern Cornwall the three Drew children are caught in the thick of it. ![]()
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