A Girl in Winter: A NovelThe story of a fateful winter day in the life of a European woman who has fled to England during WW II. |
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Page 16
... cigarette - end floated . Everything was very untidy : around the walls between bookcases and filing cabinets were stacked books and box - files that had not been referred to for months . Then there was an inner ring of similar papers ...
... cigarette - end floated . Everything was very untidy : around the walls between bookcases and filing cabinets were stacked books and box - files that had not been referred to for months . Then there was an inner ring of similar papers ...
Page 107
... cigarette in her mouth : Katherine surrep- titiously rubbed the ash into the carpet . Jane's questions had the bright quality of a child interrogating an adult— or ( though Katherine did not think of it ) an adult ques- tioning a child ...
... cigarette in her mouth : Katherine surrep- titiously rubbed the ash into the carpet . Jane's questions had the bright quality of a child interrogating an adult— or ( though Katherine did not think of it ) an adult ques- tioning a child ...
Page 153
... cigarette was grey in the sunlight . " Besides , " she threw out as an afterthought , " if you don't see any point in getting married , nobody's going to marry you . I know that all right . They'd as soon marry a Zulu . " " The question ...
... cigarette was grey in the sunlight . " Besides , " she threw out as an afterthought , " if you don't see any point in getting married , nobody's going to marry you . I know that all right . They'd as soon marry a Zulu . " " The question ...
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