White and gold CHAPTER VIII
Winter came. Magnolias Estate, now become part of a snowy universe, looked as though it were isolated from the rest of the world, surrounded by silent, peaceful mists. The contacts with Sandovelia and the villages had been reduced to the least, that is, when Helewen appointed some of his servants with the task of getting to some hamlet via the river; essentially in order to buy something lacking from the abundant winter supplies, carefully heaped in the storages during summer. Although, not rarely, the landlord welcomed in his place musicians or artists, each of whom, in his own personal way, brought a portion of the world into the estate, by telling the bystanders his tales, or updating them concerning recent happenings. What Domenir mostly loved was to lis
