Running Sands

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Reginald Wright Kauffman. Running Sands

Running Sands

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To. BRUNER KAUFFMAN. Brother and Friend. PREFACE

RUNNING SANDS

I

"WON'T YOU WALK INTO MY PARLOUR?"

II

YOUNG BLOOD

III

EN GARDE, MONSIEUR!

IV

THE APPLE OF THEIR EYE

V

ONE ROAD TO LOVE

VI

A MAID PERPLEXED

VII

FIRE AND TOW

VIII

"THE WORLD-WITHOUT-END BARGAIN"

IX

ANOTHER ROAD

X

"UNWILLING WAR"

XI

DR. BOUSSINGAULT

XII

MONTMARTRE

XIII

WORMWOOD

XIV

RUNAWAYS

XV

"NOT AT HOME"

XVI

IN THE BOIS

XVII

THE CALL OF YOUTH

XVIII

OUR LADY OF PROTECTION

XIX

HUSBAND AND WIFE

XX

HUSBAND AND LOVER

XXI

THE MAN AND HIS GOD

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Reginald Wright Kauffman

Published by Good Press, 2021

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What did he say there, for the early ten minutes of their talk? He was unable at any later date to recall one word of it. Everything, he was sure, that was clumsy. As a matter of fact, his own speech was probably by no means so uncouth as his torturing fancy declared it, hers by no means so brilliant as his memory, which retained no souvenirs, insisted. More likely than not, their talk fulfilled the requirements of convention. Convention requires the commonplace.

Nobody paid any but sporadic attention to the opera. To the left of the girl and Stainton, Mrs. Newberry and her husband, a Dido matched to a Don Juan, exchanged low monosyllables with each other and darting exchanges of talk, like rallies at badminton, with Holt. Sometimes they were ill-mannered enough to converse in whispers, near Stainton's shoulder, but mostly Mrs. Newberry was laboriously conventional, out of a constant fear of being adjudged plebeian, and now and again, to Stainton's huge disgust, she would lean to confer a word on her niece and her niece's companion.

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