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 77
... sitting - rooms , the Sunday lunches , the plates of anchovy toast in the fender , the afternoons spent in running up bills in shops so as to have something to do and some one to talk to , the autumn evenings with their interminable ...
... sitting - rooms , the Sunday lunches , the plates of anchovy toast in the fender , the afternoons spent in running up bills in shops so as to have something to do and some one to talk to , the autumn evenings with their interminable ...
Page 85
... sit for him after I gave him a sitting fee for her — as well as an advance for himself ? If Toni has received the sitting fee , why hasn't she thanked me ? If Rascasse has kept it , should I ask for it back ? It was not going to be easy ...
... sit for him after I gave him a sitting fee for her — as well as an advance for himself ? If Toni has received the sitting fee , why hasn't she thanked me ? If Rascasse has kept it , should I ask for it back ? It was not going to be easy ...
Page 109
... sitting . On his way back through the poplars he met Duff and Varna going down for a bathe . They stopped and talked ... sit to Rascasse , for my portrait . What do you think of him ? " He felt she was the matron discussing with the ...
... sitting . On his way back through the poplars he met Duff and Varna going down for a bathe . They stopped and talked ... sit to Rascasse , for my portrait . What do you think of him ? " He felt she was the matron discussing with the ...
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