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 80
... lake to lake in a soft cascade . The fall was not more than the height of a child ; and the cascade was spanned by a bridge . On the peninsula , over a gleam of steps , was a low block of dark- ness that seemed to be a boathouse but was ...
... lake to lake in a soft cascade . The fall was not more than the height of a child ; and the cascade was spanned by a bridge . On the peninsula , over a gleam of steps , was a low block of dark- ness that seemed to be a boathouse but was ...
Page 82
... lake , beyond the shadow of the tower , he saw again now what his eyes had previously seen but his mind had not recorded - an eyot thickly wooded and shaped like a pair of blunt boats lashed gunwale to gunwale . Whoever occupied the ...
... lake , beyond the shadow of the tower , he saw again now what his eyes had previously seen but his mind had not recorded - an eyot thickly wooded and shaped like a pair of blunt boats lashed gunwale to gunwale . Whoever occupied the ...
Page 109
... lake stretched away to the right . A great expanse of water , it curved round the tower and was cut off from view at last by the masonry of the Castle . Over it afternoon had begun to fade in a starless sky . Though twi- light had not ...
... lake stretched away to the right . A great expanse of water , it curved round the tower and was cut off from view at last by the masonry of the Castle . Over it afternoon had begun to fade in a starless sky . Though twi- light had not ...
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