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 27
... girl that he would marry ; she alone could exorcize the monasticism , the sour thorn- apples that English education had implanted , " for she my mind hath so displaced ... " He tried to remember the quotation . The music stopped and he ...
... girl that he would marry ; she alone could exorcize the monasticism , the sour thorn- apples that English education had implanted , " for she my mind hath so displaced ... " He tried to remember the quotation . The music stopped and he ...
Page 58
... girl he had never seen . The Corsican arrived in plus - fours . He was handsome , though getting fat , a rake in harness , and carried Lola off to dance . " It's no good trying to get that little Toni to sit , " said Rascasse , " she ...
... girl he had never seen . The Corsican arrived in plus - fours . He was handsome , though getting fat , a rake in harness , and carried Lola off to dance . " It's no good trying to get that little Toni to sit , " said Rascasse , " she ...
Page 185
... girl away when he needs her most , when a tried friend , a gentle- man like Foster , a man of ancient lineage , gives a farewell dinner for him and his girl . You , you whom he introduced to everyone in the town , whose social entry he ...
... girl away when he needs her most , when a tried friend , a gentle- man like Foster , a man of ancient lineage , gives a farewell dinner for him and his girl . You , you whom he introduced to everyone in the town , whose social entry he ...
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