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Douglas Ainslie

 
9781332506439: Adventures Social and Literary (Classic Reprint)

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The following pages of Adventures should be looked upon and read as though one had chanced to meet the Author at a country-house party, and after a British breakfast, damask tablecloth, silver, silver everywhere, and roses and roUs and simmering dishes, and honey taken episodically by each guest as he and she strolls into the dining-room during! the course of the mbrning, two or three or four of the number of either sex happen to stroll out upon the soft emerald lawn and stand under the big cedar that ades thiem from the sun, already high risen in the sky. The Author tells some of his experiences for tweaity minutes or so, after which the iimpromptu party separates, to meet perhaps, equally by accident, after luncheon, in one of the broad baywindows looking over thje lake and distant woodlands :one sohtary church spire gives a note of idealism to the landscape. More stories then, and perhaps a boatinig excursion on the lake, where some may get a little wet, but they wi Unot catch a severe cold ,i The Author schief regret is that he is obliged toi monopolize the conversation on this occasion (for listening well to others is half of good conversation). A late famous ambassador, whose son was the authors good friend, was once stajdng with Dr. Jowett at BaU
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