Dream Days - Kenneth Grahame - Books -  - 9798555193490 - January 22, 2021
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Dream Days

Book Excerpt: ...ame was a daily familiar word; his story was a part of the music to which they swung, himself was their fellow and their mate and comrade. So they peeped, and winked, and peeped again, and called to their laggard brothers to come quick and see.***"The best of life is but intoxication, and Selina, who during her brief inebriation had lived in an ecstasy as golden as our drab existence affords, had to experience the inevitable bitterness of awakening sobriety, when the dying down of the flames into sullen embers coincided with the frenzied entrance of Aunt Eliza on the scene. It was not so much that she was at once and forever disrated, broke, sent before the mast, and branded as one on whom no reliance could be placed, even with Edward safe at school, and myself under the distant vigilance of an aunt; that her pocket money was stopped indefinitely, and her new Church Service, the pride of her last birthday, removed from her own custody and placed under the control of a Trust. She sorrowed rathe...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 22, 2021
ISBN13 9798555193490
Pages 94
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 5 mm   ·   136 g
Language English  

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