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 31
... earth seemed to be newly revealed to him , as it had been long ago when for the first time the Odyssey changed in his mind from words into music . The brown sail of a barge , whose hull was concealed by the deep canal - banks , would ...
... earth seemed to be newly revealed to him , as it had been long ago when for the first time the Odyssey changed in his mind from words into music . The brown sail of a barge , whose hull was concealed by the deep canal - banks , would ...
Page 59
... earth backward between their legs . This done , it was Ballater's turn to hold the candle while Lewis attacked the earth - face . " My God , Alison , " Ballater said , " why are we burrowing here like moles ? When you came into the fort ...
... earth backward between their legs . This done , it was Ballater's turn to hold the candle while Lewis attacked the earth - face . " My God , Alison , " Ballater said , " why are we burrowing here like moles ? When you came into the fort ...
Page 63
... earth , their entrench- ing tool , the electric torches that had displaced candles which in the foul atmosphere of the inner tunnel would burn no longer , their stores of earth , Willett's crowbar , the rules and agenda of the Boxing ...
... earth , their entrench- ing tool , the electric torches that had displaced candles which in the foul atmosphere of the inner tunnel would burn no longer , their stores of earth , Willett's crowbar , the rules and agenda of the Boxing ...
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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