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We Discover the Old Dominion

Louise Closser Hale

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX All About Fashionable Life, with Some Ordinary Tears, Theories, and a Wreck, if You Please By the morning of the second day in Hot Springs, so thoroughly was I relaxed, there was no use searching for the date of the month in the calendar (provided I could find the calendar) as I didn't know the day of the week. I was as one who awakes from a heavy sleep forgetting his name or his whereabouts, and terrified at the block of vague light which turns out to be the window. It is as though the spirit has gone wandering and is late getting back into the suddenly waking body. The best I could do was to ask for today's paper, very insistent upon its being " today's," and, fixing on the top liner, set my mental watch by it. We seemed to be such a vast distance from Washington it was surprising to find how early the morning papers arrived. I suppose all of the guests had come to Hot Springs for complete relaxation, yet they continued avid of news. The long corridors and the wide porches were lined with men and women scanning the columns. There is not so much quick turning from the first sheet to those pages in lighter vein as there was before the war. Yet I wonder if others reading the daily reports of the carnage do as I do: let the eyes stray from the account of misery for an instant to something alongside of almost no import; an item concerning the killing of a mother-in-law whom we do not know, or an advertisement in which we have no interest. I find that I must do this, although I return to the awful truth after the momentary relief. I suppose it is one of the ways for us to keep our balance. Try not to be bored with this matter seemingly extraneous to Hot Springs. It is a point in favour of just such great hotels as those in the Valley of healing waters. Th...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Discover the Old Dominion. To get started finding We Discover the Old Dominion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1151286672

Description: This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX All About Fashionable Life, with Some Ordinary Tears, Theories, and a Wreck, if You Please By the morning of the second day in Hot Springs, so thoroughly was I relaxed, there was no use searching for the date of the month in the calendar (provided I could find the calendar) as I didn't know the day of the week. I was as one who awakes from a heavy sleep forgetting his name or his whereabouts, and terrified at the block of vague light which turns out to be the window. It is as though the spirit has gone wandering and is late getting back into the suddenly waking body. The best I could do was to ask for today's paper, very insistent upon its being " today's," and, fixing on the top liner, set my mental watch by it. We seemed to be such a vast distance from Washington it was surprising to find how early the morning papers arrived. I suppose all of the guests had come to Hot Springs for complete relaxation, yet they continued avid of news. The long corridors and the wide porches were lined with men and women scanning the columns. There is not so much quick turning from the first sheet to those pages in lighter vein as there was before the war. Yet I wonder if others reading the daily reports of the carnage do as I do: let the eyes stray from the account of misery for an instant to something alongside of almost no import; an item concerning the killing of a mother-in-law whom we do not know, or an advertisement in which we have no interest. I find that I must do this, although I return to the awful truth after the momentary relief. I suppose it is one of the ways for us to keep our balance. Try not to be bored with this matter seemingly extraneous to Hot Springs. It is a point in favour of just such great hotels as those in the Valley of healing waters. Th...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Discover the Old Dominion. To get started finding We Discover the Old Dominion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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