Excerpt from The Tortoise: A Novel She was small and white in the centre of the lawn. High birch trees towered above her shaping the sky to a canopy over her head. Beyond her gleamed the lily pond framed in its round basin. He saw her as the mysterious and incalculable, and uncertain centre of the beautiful unsafe world. So he had always seen her. Never had he felt safe with her. Keeping her had been his gamble with fate. He had played high, he had played constantly, higher and higher, and 'he had believed he would win. ...
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Excerpt from The Tortoise: A Novel She was small and white in the centre of the lawn. High birch trees towered above her shaping the sky to a canopy over her head. Beyond her gleamed the lily pond framed in its round basin. He saw her as the mysterious and incalculable, and uncertain centre of the beautiful unsafe world. So he had always seen her. Never had he felt safe with her. Keeping her had been his gamble with fate. He had played high, he had played constantly, higher and higher, and 'he had believed he would win. His faith had been profound, but now he was no longer sure. He saw her in a new and terrible posture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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