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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Page 117
... turned the key in the lock . Why hadn't the fellow , master of the house or no master of the house , the elementary good taste to stay in his study once there , instead of prowling about the staircase and - as he was now audibly doing ...
... turned the key in the lock . Why hadn't the fellow , master of the house or no master of the house , the elementary good taste to stay in his study once there , instead of prowling about the staircase and - as he was now audibly doing ...
Page 126
... turned to stare at me . Almost at once a bus appeared . The policeman was still there in the back- ground . I got on the bus . Holding my skirts aloft with what at another time I'd have considered impressive skill , I went up- stairs ...
... turned to stare at me . Almost at once a bus appeared . The policeman was still there in the back- ground . I got on the bus . Holding my skirts aloft with what at another time I'd have considered impressive skill , I went up- stairs ...
Page 226
... turned at once and ran at right angles down a gentler slope that led toward Aberdarcy . Almost at once I fell over and grazed the palm of my bad hand and one knee ; I was glad of this because the pain would make me concentrate on it ...
... turned at once and ran at right angles down a gentler slope that led toward Aberdarcy . Almost at once I fell over and grazed the palm of my bad hand and one knee ; I was glad of this because the pain would make me concentrate on it ...
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