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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' You need not order fresh wine for me, ' I said. ' If yon drive your son away I shall go away too.' ' On what grounds ? ' ' I state a fact. You may guess at the reason.' He turned on his son in a fury. ' Are you here still ? ' The boy fled before his father's wrath, a trembling, piteous little figure. I was so angry myself that I could hardly speak, but I only had two words to say, and before I followed the boy I said them. ' Guten Appetit I' I flung at him. Eugenie had sometimes said it to me as we began to eat so I knew the phrase. Under the circumstances I hoped it would annoy him, and I believe it did. He looked like thunder. At this point I am going to describe a portrait of my mother that hangs in the drawing-room at home. She was alluring and exquisite to the day of her death: but when this portrait was painted she had a spice of the devil in her eyes. ' Green as green flames, blue- grey like skies, and soft like sighs, ' they were: and her hair was dark with bronze lights in it, and her hands were slim and white. That's enough. You must imagine the rest. I 'm not what she was, but I 'm like her to look at. Dad says so. And, by the way, my name is Karen Gilfoy. Dad is what people call a financier. He rushes about all over the world and ' operates ': but I can't tell you much more about his ways of earning his bread. Sometimes we seem to berich and sometimes hard up, but we get along. I 've been as well or as Ul-educated as an English girl is who goes to an expensive school and likes games better than work: and I 've always had all the money I wanted for clothes. I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs. I happened ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217780773 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217780776 |
| Weight | 0.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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