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 44
... standing in the doorway with a shaded lamp , stared at the lighted head and shoulders of the reader , not in surprise , for Lewis's night - watch was familiar to him , but as children stare at a picture that disturbs them , they know ...
... standing in the doorway with a shaded lamp , stared at the lighted head and shoulders of the reader , not in surprise , for Lewis's night - watch was familiar to him , but as children stare at a picture that disturbs them , they know ...
Page 274
... standing over his oars , facing for'ard , and as his body swung to and fro its reflection danced on the rippling , sunlit film of the water . " I wonder what he is going to do on the island , " Julie said , standing to watch him , and ...
... standing over his oars , facing for'ard , and as his body swung to and fro its reflection danced on the rippling , sunlit film of the water . " I wonder what he is going to do on the island , " Julie said , standing to watch him , and ...
Page 410
... standing , and eat dry bread like a serf ; who yet had beauty and repose and power , was a menace , a pest . She hated him because he would not defend himself . He did not care for her argument , though he attended it , or for her ...
... standing , and eat dry bread like a serf ; who yet had beauty and repose and power , was a menace , a pest . She hated him because he would not defend himself . He did not care for her argument , though he attended it , or for her ...
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