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The Brass Bottle

The Brass Bottle

F. Anstey

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1532904673
ISBN13: 9781532904677
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 25 2016
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This day six weeks-just six weeks ago! Horace Ventimore said, half aloud, to himself, and pulled out his watch. Half-past twelve-what was I doing at half-past twelve? As he sat at the window of his office in Great Cloister Street, Westminster, he made his thoughts travel back to a certain glorious morning in August which now seemed so remote and irrecoverable. At this precise time he was waiting on the balcony of the Hotel de la Plage-the sole hostelry of St. Luc-en-Port, the tiny Normandy watering-place upon which, by some happy inspiration, he had lighted during a solitary cycling tour-waiting until She should appear. He could see the whole scene: the tiny cove, with the violet shadow of the cliff sleeping on the green water; the swell of the waves lazily lapping against the diving-board from which he had plunged half an hour before; he remembered the long swim out to the buoy; the exhilarated anticipation with which he had dressed and climbed the steep path to the hotel terrace.

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