You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.
Gilbert Parker
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.
Gilbert Parker · English
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You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.
Gilbert Parker · English
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CHAPTER VI "HERE ENDETH THE FIRST LESSON" The stillness of a summer's day in Prairie Land has all the characteristics of music. That is not so paradoxical as it seems. The effect of some music is to produce a divine quiescence of the senses, a suspension of motion and aggressive life; to reduce existence to mere pulsation. It was this kind of feeling which pervaded that region of sentient being when Shiel Crozier told his story. The sounds that sprinkled the general stillness were
You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.
Gilbert Parker
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