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The Azure Rose; A Novel (Paperback)
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The Azure Rose; A Novel (Paperback)
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CHAPTER III IN WHICH A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED Money's
the still sweet-singing nightingale.?Herrick: Hesperides. Seraphin
Dieudonne told the truth: at that moment Charlie Cartaret?for all
this, remember, preceded the coming of the Vision?at that moment
Cartaret was seated in his room in the rue du Val-de-Grace,
wondering how he was to find his next month's rent. His trouble was
that he had just sold a picture, for the first time in his life,
and, having sold it, he had rashly engaged to celebrate that good
fortune by a feast which would leave him with only enough to buy
meals for the ensuing three weeks. He was a rather fine-looking,
upstanding young fellow of a type essentially American. In the
days, not long distant, when the goal at the other end of the
gridiron had been the only goal of his ambition, he had put hard
muscles on his hardy frame; later he had learned to shoot in
Arizona; and he even now would have looked more at home along
Broadway or Hal- sted Street than he did in the rue St. Jacques or
the Boulevard St. Michel. He was tow- haired and brown-eyed and
clean-shaven; he was generally hopeful, which is another way of
saying that he was still upon the flowered slope of twenty-five.
Cartaret had inherited his excellent constitution, but his family
all suffered from one disease: the disease of too much money on the
wrong side of the house. When oil was found in Ohio, it was found
in land belonging to his father's brother, but Charlie's father
remained a poor lawyer to the end of his days. Uncle Jack had
children of his own and a deserved reputation for holding on to his
pennies. He sent his niece to a finishing-school, where she could
be properly prepared for that state of life to which it had not
pleased Heaven to call her,and he sent h...
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Rarebooksclub.com
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
Reginald Wright Kauffman
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
54 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-217-37870-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-217-37870-6 |
Barcode: |
9780217378703 |
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