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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: at the ankle with the still of a football trainer j pulled out the buggy cushion for me to sit on, cut off my shoe with two skillful slits of my knife down to the sole, and, with expert and sure-moving fingers, explored the extent of the damage. What a silly you were not to have let me do this before, she commented. That's a man all over I can't tell you how inexpressibly comforting I found that last observation. Then, after various mysterious and expert rend- ings, she produced a sort of bandage of fine lawn. It was evidently not altogether satisfactory to her, because she remarked: If we only wore proper petticoats these days, I could have got you a good one. But the skill with which she put it on, after soaking it first in the icy water of the spring, made it serve at any rate to reduce the throbbing ache down there. She had done everything she could, and then, with a refinement of tact I shouldn't have credited her with, she ignored it altogether and we set about getting breakfast. With my impaired logistics I stayed by the fire and did the cooking, while she skirmished around the hillside and brought in firewood. Take it allin all, I never had a better time in my life. I don't know how good a companion she would be to be cast ashore on a desert island with for the rest of your life, but certainly for two or three hours no one could have played the part better. After we had eaten breakfast, which proved rather a messy job, though neither of us was in a mood to mind, we lounged back lazily in a convenient heap of fallen leaves and smoked up the rest of the cigarettes. It may be difficult to believe that I was utterly content?wholly carefree. That I had eloped with Elaine, that I had, in all probability, annihilated my last chance of ever retrievin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217623391 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217623395 |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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