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An Idyll of All Fools' Day

By Josephine Daskam Bacon

2020-02-05 19:56:13

Brief Extract: Antony's fingers stiffened and grew damp against the wheel. For a few sick seconds he sat utterly silent, stunned and incredulous, not knowing what he did, while his hands, with a strange muscular memory all their own of the days when ... Read more
Brief Extract: Antony's fingers stiffened and grew damp against the wheel. For a few sick seconds he sat utterly silent, stunned and incredulous, not knowing what he did, while his hands, with a strange muscular memory all their own of the days when he had propelled a 38little mechanical velocipede steered by a wheel, kept the whirring vehicle in the centre of the long, empty road. "Good heavens!" he muttered at last, "I thought you told me--you certainly said--I understood you--oh, the devil!" Less

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File size1544.894 KB
Print pages154
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1348079446
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Josephine Daskam Bacon
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Josephine Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon) (born: Josephine Dodge Daskam) (February 17, 1876 – July 29, 1961) was an American writer of great versatility. She is chiefly known as a writer who made t...

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