Edward Frederic Benson
The Tortoise
Paperback
(RareBooksClub.com Oct. 12, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...had not made the most of herself. Without fighting Rosemary, it was possible to pick up a hint or two from her. All her forces which had instinctively begun to mobilize themselves without generalship must be taken in hand. They must be taught not only to present a decent show on parade, but to be fit for the field. There was a certain terrain which her tactics must succeed in occupying.... But--it was this that gave her pause--as far as she knew no opposing host desired to occupy it, for, if she probed down into her convictions, she found none that told her that Rosemary was contemplating its occupation. That she did not believe. But was the terrain in question desirous, by a plebiscite of its denizens, to cede itself to the adjoining kingdom? She divined that she had nobody to fight. There was no symptom of hostility from Rosemary's country. All she had to do was to take peaceful possession of the land she coveted. She was not jealous of anybody. She firmly denied the imputation she had brought against herself. Things had gone unusually well with Marion all morning: the glitter of the lunch-table the day before had been quite satisfactorily embodied in the second chapter of 'Bill' (Lord William Talbot-Howard); she had found the pumice-stone precisely where Daisy had prophesied she would, and she consulted her sister on various points of psychology as they sat at lunch. ' Sometimes I almost wish I had devoted more time to the actual experiences of life," she said. "I found myself strangely unable yesterday morning to invent the sort of light talk that you and Mr. Teddy and Miss Paulton indulge in without apparent effort. There's a glamour about it. You had the glamour tremendously yesterday, Daisy. I find it difficult to imagine...
- ISBN
- 1154724832 / 9781154724837
- Pages
- 82
- Weight
- 5.8 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.4 x 0.2 in.
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