Man's Man e-bog
25,00 DKK
(inkl. moms 31,25 DKK)
Excerpt: "e;A University college varies its facial expression about as frequently as The Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle-well. This remark specially applies between the hours of breakfast and luncheon. The courts, with their monastic cloisters and inviolable grassplots, lie basking in a sunny obliviousness to the world outside. Their stately exclusiveness is accentuated rather th...
E-bog
25,00 DKK
Forlag
Otbebookpublishing
Udgivet
26 november 2017
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9783958649798
Excerpt: "e;A University college varies its facial expression about as frequently as The Sphinx and about as violently as a treacle-well. This remark specially applies between the hours of breakfast and luncheon. The courts, with their monastic cloisters and inviolable grassplots, lie basking in a sunny obliviousness to the world outside. Their stately exclusiveness is accentuated rather than diminished by the glimpse of an occasional flying figure in a cap and gown, or the spectacle of a middle-aged female of a discreet and chastened appearance, who glides respectfully from one archway to another, carrying a broom and a tin pail, or-alas for the goings-on that a cloistered cell may conceal behind its art-muslin curtains!-a tankard containing some gentleman's morning ale."e;