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 98
... reason — that it was the contrary of acceptance , which had become for him the rule of life that he most desired to receive . Why , then , when he thought of Julie living with the van Leydens , did he envy her those qualities of ...
... reason — that it was the contrary of acceptance , which had become for him the rule of life that he most desired to receive . Why , then , when he thought of Julie living with the van Leydens , did he envy her those qualities of ...
Page 254
... reason , you made no use of your knowledge ; there was pleasure enough in silent possession of it . If there were tears in her eyes , you rustled a newspaper or looked out of the window , and a few days afterwards gave her sap- phires ...
... reason , you made no use of your knowledge ; there was pleasure enough in silent possession of it . If there were tears in her eyes , you rustled a newspaper or looked out of the window , and a few days afterwards gave her sap- phires ...
Page 352
... reason in it . " And she repeated : " No reason ; just vague fear . " But he continued to hold her and at last she said with the impulse of thought new to her own mind : " What I said was untrue- about his thinking I shrank from him ...
... reason in it . " And she repeated : " No reason ; just vague fear . " But he continued to hold her and at last she said with the impulse of thought new to her own mind : " What I said was untrue- about his thinking I shrank from him ...
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