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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Charles Morgan. Chapter Seven 92 T HEY HAD BEEN SO LONG SILENT IN THE CAR WHICH brought them from Rynwyk that , when they reached the gate of the cottage , they seemed to be locked in silence . While the car had been moving , and the ...
Charles Morgan. Chapter Seven 92 T HEY HAD BEEN SO LONG SILENT IN THE CAR WHICH brought them from Rynwyk that , when they reached the gate of the cottage , they seemed to be locked in silence . While the car had been moving , and the ...
Page 211
... silence and waking to silence again , is to acquire a new per- ceptiveness . Silence is not silent ; you begin to hear and feel the growth of natural things ; your finger seems to lie on the pulse of earth herself . Often I went into ...
... silence and waking to silence again , is to acquire a new per- ceptiveness . Silence is not silent ; you begin to hear and feel the growth of natural things ; your finger seems to lie on the pulse of earth herself . Often I went into ...
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... silent . Lewis searched his face in anxiety , but the long silence seemed not to be of exhaustion but of thought . His head was unmoved but his eyes turned from one to the other . " But not evilly - not evilly towards you . Can you ...
... silent . Lewis searched his face in anxiety , but the long silence seemed not to be of exhaustion but of thought . His head was unmoved but his eyes turned from one to the other . " But not evilly - not evilly towards you . Can you ...
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