This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...yesterday, strangely. "No sign of Teddy yet?" "Not yet. He's not due for half an hour. The car was timed to leave your rooms at half past two. It's a good two hours' run. Walk round the stables with me." The old man was a little jealous of his wife and even of Martha, much as he wanted to see the fulfillment of his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...yesterday, strangely. "No sign of Teddy yet?" "Not yet. He's not due for half an hour. The car was timed to leave your rooms at half past two. It's a good two hours' run. Walk round the stables with me." The old man was a little jealous of his wife and even of Martha, much as he wanted to see the fulfillment of his last ambition. Having imagination Bill knew this and took his father's arm. But he threw a quick surreptitious glance towards the garden. He had said, in pulling down his fourth wall, "that there could be no first lover stuff about him in his reconstruction plan, that he had n't got to fall passionately in love, and that sort of thing." A month ago he did n't honestly think that he was capable, after having distributed his love so lavishly, of reviving the divine spark. But this child, with her large steady eyes and virginal simplicity, had stirred other and rarer emotions than those of passion. Her youth and trustfulness touched all his sense of respect, her sudden flashes of love-hunger startled him like a crash of cymbals in a minuet, and her strength of will and power of presenting an attitude of impersonality that made her a little sister of the roses put him on his mettle. She was interesting, unexpected, brave, practical, wistful and as guileless and aboveboard as a spring morning. The Commodore beamed. Had he exaggerated in the description of his close relationship with his son Bill in that delectable memoir? Let anybody take a look at them now.... It was the tenth time that Bill had been walked round the stables. It was, therefore, the tenth time that he had been obliged to listen to exactly the same anecdotes about the various horses and the way in which they were bred. But it was in front of the loose box ...
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