Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton - Libros -  - 9798580097176 - 21 de enero de 2021
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Crucial Instances

Book Excerpt: ...days in the Piazza. She was one, at any rate, that needed no outlandish finery to beautify her; whatever dress she wore became her as feathers fit the bird; and her hair didn't get its color by bleaching on the housetop. It glittered of itself like the threads in an Easter chasuble, and her skin was whiter than fine wheaten bread and her mouth as sweet as a ripe fig...."Well, sir, you could no more keep them apart than the bees and the lavender. They were always together, singing, bowling, playing cup and ball, walking in the gardens, visiting the aviaries and petting her grace's trick-dogs and monkeys. The Duchess was as gay as a foal, always playing pranks and laughing, tricking out her animals like comedians, disguising herself as a peasant or a nun (you should have seen her...

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Publicado 21 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798580097176
Páginas 124
Dimensiones 216 × 280 × 7 mm   ·   303 g
Lengua Inglés  

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