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 375
... felt himself to be indeed a visitor from another world . A desire not altogether to lose contact with this supreme experience from which he had been recalled dragged at him like a vanishing memory and produced in him , during the ...
... felt himself to be indeed a visitor from another world . A desire not altogether to lose contact with this supreme experience from which he had been recalled dragged at him like a vanishing memory and produced in him , during the ...
Page 391
... felt it , like a blind man . " You are crying . . . . I shall not see your face again . It is strange , I hope that I may forget your face before I die . . . Now , leave me . Call no one . Say that I am asleep . " She would have kissed ...
... felt it , like a blind man . " You are crying . . . . I shall not see your face again . It is strange , I hope that I may forget your face before I die . . . Now , leave me . Call no one . Say that I am asleep . " She would have kissed ...
Page 395
... felt no grief , but only , as part of the emptying of her life , grief's absence , a tearless void ; and Lewis , in her thought and in her brief encounters with him , was for her a being to whom she felt herself bound by ties the nature ...
... felt no grief , but only , as part of the emptying of her life , grief's absence , a tearless void ; and Lewis , in her thought and in her brief encounters with him , was for her a being to whom she felt herself bound by ties the nature ...
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