| Author: | Ralph Henry Barbour | ISBN: | 9788892502703 |
| Publisher: | Publisher s11838 | Publication: | March 2, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ralph Henry Barbour |
| ISBN: | 9788892502703 |
| Publisher: | Publisher s11838 |
| Publication: | March 2, 2018 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Through the wide-open window floated in the fragrance of dew-dripping flowers. On the edge of the table a smouldering cigarette sent up a thin, wavering filament of gray smoke that lost itself in the upper gloom of the darkened room, leaving behind it a not-unpleasing odor of the Orient to mingle with the incense from the gardens without. When he paused in his writing—and pauses were frequent—Mr. Stephen Burton’s gaze invariably wandered to the sunlighted morning world represented by the vista at his elbow.
Through the wide-open window floated in the fragrance of dew-dripping flowers. On the edge of the table a smouldering cigarette sent up a thin, wavering filament of gray smoke that lost itself in the upper gloom of the darkened room, leaving behind it a not-unpleasing odor of the Orient to mingle with the incense from the gardens without. When he paused in his writing—and pauses were frequent—Mr. Stephen Burton’s gaze invariably wandered to the sunlighted morning world represented by the vista at his elbow.
