The Touchstone - Edith Wharton - Libros - Independently Published - 9798694953160 - 26 de enero de 2021
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The Touchstone

Book Excerpt: ...g out at him as he put his key in the door--. He stood up and strolled into the other room. Hollingsworth, lounging away from the window, had joined himself to a languidly convivial group of men to whom, in phrases as halting as though they struggled to define an ultimate idea, he was expounding the cursed nuisance of living in a hole with such a damned climate that one had to get out of it by February, with the contingent difficulty of there being no place to take one's yacht to in winter but that other played-out hole, the Riviera. From the outskirts of this group Glennard wandered to another, where a voice as different as possible from Hollingsworth's colorless organ dominated another circle of languid listeners."Come and hear Dinslow talk about his patent: admission free," one of the men sang out in a tone of mock resignation. Dinslow turned to Glennard the confident pugnacity of his smile. "Give it another six months and it'll be talking about itself," he declared. "It's pretty nearly articu...

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Publicado 26 de enero de 2021
ISBN13 9798694953160
Editores Independently Published
Páginas 74
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   108 g
Lengua Inglés  

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