Gray youth

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Oliver Onions. Gray youth

Gray youth

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BOOK ONE. A VERY MODERN COURTSHIP

PART I

ARGUMENT

I. CHEYNE WALK

II. THE SURPRISE PARTY

III. THE FASHION STUDIO

IV. THE MCGRATH

V. POUNDS AND SHILLINGS

VI. WOMAN’S WHOLE EXISTENCE

VII. THE VOICE THAT BREATHED O’ER EDEN

PART II

I. PENCE

II. A DAMSEL ERRANT

III “BUSINESS AS USUAL”

IV “IL FAUT QU’ UNE PORTE—”

V. BOND AND FREE

PART III

I. THE LEAGUE

II “BARRAGE”

III. EPITHALAMIUM

ENTR’ ACTE

BOOK TWO. A VERY MODERN MARRIAGE

PART I

I. THE WITAN

II. THE POND-ROOM

III. THE “NOVUM”

IV. THE STONE WALL

V. THREE SHIPS

VI. POLICY

PART II

I. THE PIGEON PAIR

II. THE ’VERT

III. THE IMPERIALISTS

IV. THE OUTSIDERS

V “HOUSE FULL”

VI. THE SOUL STORM

PART III

I. LITMUS

II. BY THE WAY

III. DE TROP

IV. GRAY YOUTH

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Oliver Onions

The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage

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Amory knew that she was not plucky in the least, but it did not displease her to let it go at that. She murmured something about “Absurd!” and Dorothy, with a wave, was off. Amory heard her step in the entry below; then the sound died away on Cheyne Walk.

Left alone, Amory set on the kettle again for washing-up; then, until it should boil, she looked anew round the room in which, for all she could see to the contrary, she would soon be living. And tea had now put her into a rather better humour. After all, it might not be so bad. Not that it was not all very fine for Dorothy to talk; anybody could talk lightly about living over greengrocers’ shops who had people who rode in cars with tea-baskets and bridge-tables inside them and lived in houses with eight-foot baths and electric lights in the wardrobes so that they could see which frocks they were taking down; nevertheless, it might not be so bad. Cosimo Pratt would help her. Cosimo was so good at arranging things. If anybody could make this single dingy room with the lovely view comfortable, Cosimo could. And Cosimo, unlike Dorothy, really did understand her painting. …

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