Arms and the Woman - Couverture souple

Harold Macgrath, Macgrath; Harold Macgrath

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1421845458 ISBN 13 : 9781421845456

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

The first time I met her I was a reporter in the embryonic state and she was a girl in short dresses. It was in a garden, surrounded by high red brick walls which were half hidden by clusters of green vines, and at the base of which nestled earth-beds, radiant with roses and poppies and peonies and bushes of lavender lilacs, all spilling their delicate ambrosia on the mild air of passing May. I stood, straw hat in hand, wondering if I had not stumbled into some sweet prison of flowers which, having run disobe-dient ways in the past, had been placed here by Flora, and forever denied their native meadows and wildernesses. And this vision of fresh youth in my path, perhaps she was some guardian nymph. I was only twenty-two-a most impressionable age. Her hair was like that rare October brown, half dun, half gold; her eyes were cool and restful, like the brown pools one sees in the heart of the forests, and her lips and cheeks cozened the warm vermilion of the rose which lay ever so lightly on the bosom of her white dress. Close at hand was a table upon which stood a pitcher of lemonade. She was holding in her hand an empty glass. As my eyes encountered her calm, inquiring gaze, my courage fled precipitately, likewise the object of my errand. There was a pause; diffi-dence and embarrassment on my side, placidity on hers.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1904 edition by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction. Special subscription edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421845458
• ISBN 13: 9781421845456
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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