The Anglo-Indians (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Alice Perrin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331014522 ISBN 13 : 9781331014522

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Anglo-Indians

Father would probably remark that only a lunatic could wish to get up in the middle of the night unless for purposes connected with sport. Marion and Isabel would be sure to laugh and tease and say things before people about their little sister''s queer ways, till Fay would feel hot and prickly with self-consciousness as though ginger-beer were running in her veins. She knew it all so well!

Therefore was she most careful and cautious, and crept like a little slim thief out into the dark, gravelly compound. Above her, against a glimmering back ground, towered the fir trees, gloomy, fragrant. A steep track that climbed to an upper road in the hill-side made a wavering, uncertain streak, like a column of rising mist in the dimness. She paused, and drew deep breaths of the keen, cold air already quick with expect ance of the dawn; then, nervous as an animal, she drew back into the darker shelter of the wall, for a sudden light shot out from the servants'' quarters and told her the establishment was stirring.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Fay Fleetwood said something angry under her breath. Being a door in an old-fashioned Indian bungalow albeit the bungalow was one in a popular hill-station it had no lock, only long bolts at the top and the bottom, and the lower bolt scraped on the floor in defiant accompaniment to the squeak of the hinges. Fay listened, anxious, intent. A cross the passage her fathers snores resounded loud, long, regular. She marvelled how her mother could rest with such a noise in the room but then it took a good deal to disturb mother either sleeping or awake. In the present circumstances this was fortunate, for had Mrs Fleetwood heard movements at such an early hour in her youngest daughters bedroom she might have arisen to investigate the cause, and would certainly have prohibited Fay sexpedition to the top of the hill to see the dawn break over the snows. Mother would forbid such mad nonsense once she knew of it, and add the usual things that so bored Fay to hear: You must recollect that you are sixteen no longer a child. We really ought to have left you at home. We really ought not to keep you in I ndia, etc., etc.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331014522
• ISBN 13: 9781331014522
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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