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 103
... turned ordinary conversation into whispered . asides ; in London it was worse , always parties , " Are you going to the Bickertons ? -Why didn't you go to the Bickertons ? -So - and - so meant to ask you but he didn't know how to get ...
... turned ordinary conversation into whispered . asides ; in London it was worse , always parties , " Are you going to the Bickertons ? -Why didn't you go to the Bickertons ? -So - and - so meant to ask you but he didn't know how to get ...
Page 121
... turned out that she didn't really like primitive people and Toni did and they began to leave her at home and then she minded quite a lot ; then Toni turned up here . " " When was that ? " " About a week before I met you and we saw her ...
... turned out that she didn't really like primitive people and Toni did and they began to leave her at home and then she minded quite a lot ; then Toni turned up here . " " When was that ? " " About a week before I met you and we saw her ...
Page 145
... turned to him . " Get in . " " I say , can you drive all right ? " " Get in . " “ Oui — venez — j'ai tellement peur de rester seule avec lui . " It did not occur to him that if she felt like that she needn't go at all . He would stay ...
... turned to him . " Get in . " " I say , can you drive all right ? " " Get in . " “ Oui — venez — j'ai tellement peur de rester seule avec lui . " It did not occur to him that if she felt like that she needn't go at all . He would stay ...
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