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 177
... suppose I do . I suppose I shall want to beat Sophie anyhow . " She smiled for the first time . " But I can't sit here any more , Lewis . This is the third day . People are always coming up and hovering . Then they sit down beside me ...
... suppose I do . I suppose I shall want to beat Sophie anyhow . " She smiled for the first time . " But I can't sit here any more , Lewis . This is the third day . People are always coming up and hovering . Then they sit down beside me ...
Page 209
... suppose you will be a great man some day , and that your letter , which I promise to keep , will puzzle your biog- rapher almost as much as it has puzzled LEWIS DEAR , JULIE ENKENDAAL , Friday I wish I hadn't sent that silly letter . It ...
... suppose you will be a great man some day , and that your letter , which I promise to keep , will puzzle your biog- rapher almost as much as it has puzzled LEWIS DEAR , JULIE ENKENDAAL , Friday I wish I hadn't sent that silly letter . It ...
Page 263
... suppose , deep down in my mind , was the thought that if you were my lover I should become satisfied , and that , when the time came for us to part— ” She raised her voice in defiance , not of him , but of herself . " I wanted you , I ...
... suppose , deep down in my mind , was the thought that if you were my lover I should become satisfied , and that , when the time came for us to part— ” She raised her voice in defiance , not of him , but of herself . " I wanted you , I ...
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added Alison Allard asked Ballater Ballater's Baron Baroness beautiful began believe body Castle chair cheeks child clavichord colour cottage cried dark dear delight Descartes door dream Dutch edge embrasure England English Enkendaal exclaimed eyes face feel Ferrard fingers German gone Goof Hague hand Harbury head hear heard Herriot imagination Jedwell Julie Julie's Kerstholt knew lake laugh leave letter Lewis answered Lewis thought Lewis's Leyden light lips listen live looked marriage Mauritshuis Mevrouw mind morning mother moved Narwitz never night passed peace perhaps Plato play Prussia Quillan ramparts Ramsdell remember replied ROBERT GRANJON Rupert Rynwyk seemed Sezley shoulders silence sleep smile Socrates soon Sophie Sophie's speak spoke stood suddenly suppose talk tell tennis There's thing told touch trees turned Uncle Pieter van Leyden voice walked wife window wish woman wonder words