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Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage

By Oliver Onions

2020-05-24 20:54:14

Brief Extract: A GIRL of seventeen, with a knitted tam-o’-shanter cap and a thick cable of red-bronze hair hanging down her back, walked along with a gallery of the Louvre, looking for her aunt. The eyes that turned whenever she heard a footfall or ... Read more
Brief Extract: A GIRL of seventeen, with a knitted tam-o’-shanter cap and a thick cable of red-bronze hair hanging down her back, walked along with a gallery of the Louvre, looking for her aunt. The eyes that turned whenever she heard a footfall or, passing a statue or case, saw a fresh vista before her, were of a light brown, with just such a hint of gold in their irises as you see when some opals are turned and catch a different light; and they were confused and overfilled with the treasures on which they had rested. She was an art student and must return to London on the morrow in order to resume her studies at the McGrath. Less

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File size516.354 KB
Print pages630
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1345336108
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Oliver Onions
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Oliver Onions was born in Bradford in 1873. Although he legally changed his name to George Oliver in 1918, he always published under the name Oliver Onions. Onions originally worked as a commercial ar...

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