Excerpt from The Ides of March, Vol. 2 of 3 Where children are not, heaven is not, and heaven if they come not again Shall he never But the face and the voice of a child are assurance of heaven and its promise for ever! A. C. Swinburne. With a plaintiveness born only of summer night and summer sea, the band at the end of the pier was sobbing out the dying notes of a waltz. The sound floated in, lazily, like the scarcely-stirred air, through the Windows of one of the large houses on the esplanade. Vol. II. The ...
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Excerpt from The Ides of March, Vol. 2 of 3 Where children are not, heaven is not, and heaven if they come not again Shall he never But the face and the voice of a child are assurance of heaven and its promise for ever! A. C. Swinburne. With a plaintiveness born only of summer night and summer sea, the band at the end of the pier was sobbing out the dying notes of a waltz. The sound floated in, lazily, like the scarcely-stirred air, through the Windows of one of the large houses on the esplanade. Vol. II. The occupants Of the house had just done dining; they were at dessert. The host leaned back in his chair and tasted his wine his wife rested her round white arms on the table-cloth, and tried, not very successfully, to peel some early walnuts; their guest sat in a reverie, absently fingering the stem of his wine glass. Outside, there sounded distinctly the patter Of hurrying feet on the asphalte parade; laughter and voices also were tossed in at the window in snatches; the low murmur of the sea was soothingly audible. A silence had fallen on the trio. 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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