The FountainThe text is a novel set in Holland during the first World War. The main characters are a British officer, a Dutch aristocrat and his British stepdaughter who is married to a German officer. It was a winner of the 1932 Hawthornden Prize. |
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Page 96
... Leyden , and you did not become a van Leyden by nine years or by a life- time spent among them . And yet , Lewis thought , he speaks of her with a twinkling affection , as though she were a pretty that it amused him to have on his shelf ...
... Leyden , and you did not become a van Leyden by nine years or by a life- time spent among them . And yet , Lewis thought , he speaks of her with a twinkling affection , as though she were a pretty that it amused him to have on his shelf ...
Page 103
... Leyden had pointed and from it raised her eyes to the window in a long abstracted look . Then , with a little wrench of her whole body , she roused herself and was Ballater's again . The cloud had passed ; van Leyden had not perceived ...
... Leyden had pointed and from it raised her eyes to the window in a long abstracted look . Then , with a little wrench of her whole body , she roused herself and was Ballater's again . The cloud had passed ; van Leyden had not perceived ...
Page 450
... Leyden , the name of a noble family extinct before my own sojourn in Holland . It has the right ring and may easily be pronounced by English readers ; I have chosen it for ... Leyden ; the French , Madame de Leyden , which 450 Author's Note.
... Leyden , the name of a noble family extinct before my own sojourn in Holland . It has the right ring and may easily be pronounced by English readers ; I have chosen it for ... Leyden ; the French , Madame de Leyden , which 450 Author's Note.
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added Alison Allard asked Ballater Ballater's Baron Baroness beautiful began believe body Castle chair cheeks child clavichord colour cottage cried dark dear delight Descartes door dream Dutch edge embrasure England English Enkendaal exclaimed eyes face feel Ferrard fingers German gone Goof Hague hand Harbury head hear heard Herriot imagination Jedwell Julie Julie's Kerstholt knew lake laugh leave letter Lewis answered Lewis thought Lewis's Leyden light lips listen live looked marriage Mauritshuis Mevrouw mind morning mother moved Narwitz never night passed peace perhaps Plato play Prussia Quillan ramparts Ramsdell remember replied ROBERT GRANJON Rupert Rynwyk seemed Sezley shoulders silence sleep smile Socrates soon Sophie Sophie's speak spoke stood suddenly suppose talk tell tennis There's thing told touch trees turned Uncle Pieter van Leyden voice walked wife window wish woman wonder words