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
... smile at and admire it . It was the defect of a quality without which neither van Leyden himself nor his ancestors on the walls could have been the men they were - men capable of cutting distractions out of their lives as a gardener ...
... smile at and admire it . It was the defect of a quality without which neither van Leyden himself nor his ancestors on the walls could have been the men they were - men capable of cutting distractions out of their lives as a gardener ...
Page 113
... smile on her lips . Sophie despises this usurper who was her governess , Lewis said at once to himself , and he imagined that behind the slant- ing eyes and prompting the curled smile was the thought : Old Jacob , too , remembers when ...
... smile on her lips . Sophie despises this usurper who was her governess , Lewis said at once to himself , and he imagined that behind the slant- ing eyes and prompting the curled smile was the thought : Old Jacob , too , remembers when ...
Page 204
... smile . Was she delighted or sad ? She did not know . She was alive with a secret life independent of joy and of unhappiness ; and when , after the lights of the burgo- master's car had swept the avenue with gold , she went to her room ...
... smile . Was she delighted or sad ? She did not know . She was alive with a secret life independent of joy and of unhappiness ; and when , after the lights of the burgo- master's car had swept the avenue with gold , she went to her room ...
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