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The Blue Envelope: A Novel / By Sophie Kerr ...; Frontispiece by Frances Rogers Sophie Kerr No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 228 - The time has come,' the Walrus said, ' To talk of many things: Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax Of cabbages - and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Page 40 - ... exile. I stayed with the children as much as possible, but I always had to answer when he called. I had to support the fiction that he was an archeologist and I had to go abroad for months on end so that no one would think we were separated. I spent most of my time in little towns in the south of France where I wouldn't be likely to meet any one I knew, and then two or three times a year I'd have a conference with Folgay in Paris or London or Vienna and arrange financial matters. "That was bad...
Page 16 - I had read about the physical miseries of the natives in the virgin forests; I had heard about them from missionaries, and the more I thought about it the stranger it seemed to me that we Europeans trouble ourselves so little about the great humanitarian task which offers itself to us in far-off lands.
Page 62 - I dropped off to sleep and when I woke up it was pitch dark and some one was rapping at my door. I was confused for a moment — I thought I was back home again. "Is that you, Mrs. Alex?
Page 36 - I was so disappointed . . . and ashamed . . . how could I ever have thought I was in love with him . . . and I'm so silly . . ." After some more of this mutual explanation and self-accusation we both felt heaps better.
Page 119 - James took the note and read it, and of course there was nothing left for her to do but apologize. "I'm sure I'm very sorry...
Page 205 - I went over and put my arm around her. "It's all right,
Page 225 - He had a piece of yellow paper in his hand and he gave it to me to read. It was a telegram from his sister in Toronto and it said that his mother was very ill, and that he must come on at once. "Oh, that's too dreadful!
Page 263 - I said, and the words were hardly out of my mouth when we dipped and turned and ran down a long hill into a quiet little town right before us. " Telegraph office is down at the station,
Page 271 - I wanted to cry and I wanted to laugh and I wanted to jump up and down and I wanted to shout!