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 181
... cried : " My God , if it's peace we might be home in three days . Odd that we should have been thinking of it . " He was about to run forward when Lewis checked him . Some intuition , some shock of foreboding communicated to him by the ...
... cried : " My God , if it's peace we might be home in three days . Odd that we should have been thinking of it . " He was about to run forward when Lewis checked him . Some intuition , some shock of foreboding communicated to him by the ...
Page 289
... cried , throwing up her head and speaking as though her words were being dragged from her , " there's a part of me that would be freer - more gay , lighter , harder , more brilliant — if you were gone . But it is the worst in me that ...
... cried , throwing up her head and speaking as though her words were being dragged from her , " there's a part of me that would be freer - more gay , lighter , harder , more brilliant — if you were gone . But it is the worst in me that ...
Page 318
... cried . " Do see him . He'd come if Juliet asked him . " She sprang from her chair , letting her book slide to the ground and lie unheeded . “ He and Julie were such friends . But since you came , they haven't seen each other h Not as ...
... cried . " Do see him . He'd come if Juliet asked him . " She sprang from her chair , letting her book slide to the ground and lie unheeded . “ He and Julie were such friends . But since you came , they haven't seen each other h Not as ...
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