That Uncertain FeelingA chic socialite cruises like a predator on the prowl. She marks an easy target... John Aneuris Lewis, an assistant librarian, who seems an uncomplicated conquest. But Lewis is both more and less than he appears. Beneath this family-man facade lurks a poet, wit and visionary...also a budding lecher, for we soon find Lewis peering down the front of the socialite's dress. No wonder he has that uncertain feeling...he's looking into a bottomless pit! |
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... chat about old times " with her hostess . I've already mentioned the tenuity of these " old times , " assuming them to refer to shared experience at school and not , say , to the glories of Druidic Wales or the fauna of the Oligocene ...
... chat about old times " with her hostess . I've already mentioned the tenuity of these " old times , " assuming them to refer to shared experience at school and not , say , to the glories of Druidic Wales or the fauna of the Oligocene ...
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... chat to . " " Still , you're both women . I suppose that's something to have in common . ” " Don't be bloody insulting , now . " " I'm not . And I want someone to chat to as well , have you thought of that ? And I'm better at it than ...
... chat to . " " Still , you're both women . I suppose that's something to have in common . ” " Don't be bloody insulting , now . " " I'm not . And I want someone to chat to as well , have you thought of that ? And I'm better at it than ...
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... chat . " " I ... do . " We had our chat , characterized on her part by rapid and far - ranging changes of subject , and on mine by a tendency to keep saying " Who told you that ? " After she'd disclosed to me that a pirate always ...
... chat . " " I ... do . " We had our chat , characterized on her part by rapid and far - ranging changes of subject , and on mine by a tendency to keep saying " Who told you that ? " After she'd disclosed to me that a pirate always ...
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