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 66
... letter had caused in him , quickened his sense of exhaled individuality . He seemed to hold in his hand not a letter , a thing completed and therefore sparkless , dead , but the animation , the moving essence , from which it had sprung ...
... letter had caused in him , quickened his sense of exhaled individuality . He seemed to hold in his hand not a letter , a thing completed and therefore sparkless , dead , but the animation , the moving essence , from which it had sprung ...
Page 67
... letter in the same hand . MY DEAR LEWIS , I think the letter I wrote must have been a very silly one . I was feeling all the time that I didn't know you and that you would turn my letter over thinking that the little girl you knew was ...
... letter in the same hand . MY DEAR LEWIS , I think the letter I wrote must have been a very silly one . I was feeling all the time that I didn't know you and that you would turn my letter over thinking that the little girl you knew was ...
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... letter tumbled out on my knees . Your writing ! I remember the first letter I had from you— in the fort . I didn't know you , but even then I could not es- cape from the mystery of your letter - a letter from a ghost that I could see ...
... letter tumbled out on my knees . Your writing ! I remember the first letter I had from you— in the fort . I didn't know you , but even then I could not es- cape from the mystery of your letter - a letter from a ghost that I could see ...
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