[Chance by Joseph Conrad]@TWC D-Link book
Chance

CHAPTER SIX--FLORA
15/95

And that's how trouble begins." Insensible to the stony stare of three pairs of eyes, which, if the stories of our childhood as to the power of the human eye are true, ought to have been enough to daunt a tiger, that unabashed manufacturer from the East End fastened his fangs, figuratively speaking, into the poor girl and prepared to drag her away for a prey to his cubs of both sexes.
"Auntie has thought of sending you your hat and coat.

I've got them outside in the cab." Mrs.Fyne looked mechanically out of the window.

A four-wheeler stood before the gate under the weeping sky.

The driver in his conical cape and tarpaulin hat, streamed with water.

The drooping horse looked as though it had been fished out, half unconscious, from a pond.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books