The Rock Pool" ... satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results."--Goodreads |
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Page 75
... gave them both but the curtest of nods . The bar was empty , and as squalid as only can be the recep- tacles of human emotion - schools , theatres , love- nests , and battle - fields - when the element that gave them life is absent ...
... gave them both but the curtest of nods . The bar was empty , and as squalid as only can be the recep- tacles of human emotion - schools , theatres , love- nests , and battle - fields - when the element that gave them life is absent ...
Page 81
... gave Rascasse and Lola dinner in the garden . She seemed grateful for it , though , at times , as he floundered away in his laborious French , he wanted to pick up a plate and break it on her head . It was rather cold in the garden ...
... gave Rascasse and Lola dinner in the garden . She seemed grateful for it , though , at times , as he floundered away in his laborious French , he wanted to pick up a plate and break it on her head . It was rather cold in the garden ...
Page 198
... gave him a look full of intelligent curiosity , as if he were a local character . Once Jimmy came in very drunk and stood for a moment beside him . " Well , how's the lion - tamer ? I hear you're broke , old chap . " " Yes , I am ...
... gave him a look full of intelligent curiosity , as if he were a local character . Once Jimmy came in very drunk and stood for a moment beside him . " Well , how's the lion - tamer ? I hear you're broke , old chap . " " Yes , I am ...
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