Excerpt from The Arrant Rover His is to be the story of a young man, to think of whom is to visualize with some ador ing female face close to his own. He had, of course, plenty of other characteristics. He was not merely a man of affairs (either writ ten with the e that suggests impropriety, or without it). It does not follow that a man has no full-face merely because most of his portraits Show him in profile. Our very first sideways glimpse, then, of Archie Laverock shows him with an adoring female face bent above his ...
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Excerpt from The Arrant Rover His is to be the story of a young man, to think of whom is to visualize with some ador ing female face close to his own. He had, of course, plenty of other characteristics. He was not merely a man of affairs (either writ ten with the e that suggests impropriety, or without it). It does not follow that a man has no full-face merely because most of his portraits Show him in profile. Our very first sideways glimpse, then, of Archie Laverock shows him with an adoring female face bent above his own. His own being scarlet and creased as a poppy-bud newly released from the Sheath; featureless, senile, working blindly fero cions with the will-to-live, and, judged by normal standards, entirely hideous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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