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 73
... took no notice of him and she also seemed less on her guard . They talked pleasantly for a little , till she left them to go up to Saint - Pierre . " What can she do up there ? She's always going up to Saint - Pierre . " " Oh , she's a ...
... took no notice of him and she also seemed less on her guard . They talked pleasantly for a little , till she left them to go up to Saint - Pierre . " What can she do up there ? She's always going up to Saint - Pierre . " " Oh , she's a ...
Page 119
... took the child and went up to .... But I promised not to say where . " " But you didn't know about Princess Rus- tchuk ? " " Didn't know about Princess Rustchuk ! Why , we teased that little kid so much about Princess Rustchuk that she ...
... took the child and went up to .... But I promised not to say where . " " But you didn't know about Princess Rus- tchuk ? " " Didn't know about Princess Rustchuk ! Why , we teased that little kid so much about Princess Rustchuk that she ...
Page 163
Cyril Connolly. be friends with the wife , but afterwards the wife took her aside and said she'd known all the time about her and her husband , that she regretted it , but she knew she'd never keep him if she got jealous , and that Lola ...
Cyril Connolly. be friends with the wife , but afterwards the wife took her aside and said she'd known all the time about her and her husband , that she regretted it , but she knew she'd never keep him if she got jealous , and that Lola ...
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