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 51
... once there'll be enough to go round the mess . This would win fame for his garden , and the prospect of it was his consolation in an un- profitable hunt for a mole . " Pretty good crop of radishes , sir , " he cried as Jedwell passed ...
... once there'll be enough to go round the mess . This would win fame for his garden , and the prospect of it was his consolation in an un- profitable hunt for a mole . " Pretty good crop of radishes , sir , " he cried as Jedwell passed ...
Page 257
... Once she would have been jealous of Lewis's solitude . He would shut ' s himself up in the library and come from it at last wrapt in is thought that could not at once be shaken from him . A haze h of meditation was still upon his eyes ...
... Once she would have been jealous of Lewis's solitude . He would shut ' s himself up in the library and come from it at last wrapt in is thought that could not at once be shaken from him . A haze h of meditation was still upon his eyes ...
Page 323
... once terrible and full of delight , enables men to transcend for a little while their loves and fears on earth . Once he wrote , asking news of her . " Nothing is as I thought it would be , " she answered in a letter that bore the ...
... once terrible and full of delight , enables men to transcend for a little while their loves and fears on earth . Once he wrote , asking news of her . " Nothing is as I thought it would be , " she answered in a letter that bore the ...
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