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 118
... stay ? If I stay shall I ever be able to speak to you ? If I go it will be because you bid me ! ' If only I could speak to her - but when I go up there I am too frightened . I never can get beyond the fountain . ' " " " Who do you mean ...
... stay ? If I stay shall I ever be able to speak to you ? If I go it will be because you bid me ! ' If only I could speak to her - but when I go up there I am too frightened . I never can get beyond the fountain . ' " " " Who do you mean ...
Page 132
... stay with you without ever having met you ? " " " " Yes , of course . ' " Tell me about it . " " Well - oo - you see ... stayed with the 132 THE ROCK POOL.
... stay with you without ever having met you ? " " " " Yes , of course . ' " Tell me about it . " " Well - oo - you see ... stayed with the 132 THE ROCK POOL.
Page 176
... stay with her . I don't want to interfere with anybody . Politics , families , people , places , they mean nothing to me . I ask nothing of the world but to be left alone . Why shouldn't I have enough money to stay with the person I ...
... stay with her . I don't want to interfere with anybody . Politics , families , people , places , they mean nothing to me . I ask nothing of the world but to be left alone . Why shouldn't I have enough money to stay with the person I ...
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