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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... continued . " It would take the hell of a time and there are all sorts of difficulties , but the chief one that I can see is keeping the people together . You know how everyone goes his own way in this place ; we're a howling democracy ...
... continued . " It would take the hell of a time and there are all sorts of difficulties , but the chief one that I can see is keeping the people together . You know how everyone goes his own way in this place ; we're a howling democracy ...
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... continued unbroken . Willett said no more of his project and Lewis imagined that it was postponed ; then ceased to think of it . Herriot made no move . One evening at dinner Herriot leaned across the table and poured wine into Lewis's ...
... continued unbroken . Willett said no more of his project and Lewis imagined that it was postponed ; then ceased to think of it . Herriot made no move . One evening at dinner Herriot leaned across the table and poured wine into Lewis's ...
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... continued to hold her and at last she said with the impulse of thought new to her own mind : " What I said was untrue- about his thinking I shrank from him because he was maimed . It was true at first . He did think that . He doesn't ...
... continued to hold her and at last she said with the impulse of thought new to her own mind : " What I said was untrue- about his thinking I shrank from him because he was maimed . It was true at first . He did think that . He doesn't ...
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