Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton - Bücher - INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED - 9798714796579 - 20. April 2021
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Bunner Sisters

Book Excerpt: ...but a faint tinge of pink still lingered on her cheek-bones, like the reflection of sunset which sometimes colours the west long after the day is over. When she had tied the parcel to her satisfaction, and laid it with furtive accuracy just opposite her sister's plate, she sat down, with an air of obviously-assumed indifference, in one of the rocking-chairs near the window; and a moment later the shop-door opened and Evelina entered. The younger Bunner sister, who was a little taller than her elder, had a more pronounced nose, but a weaker slope of mouth and chin. She still permitted herself the frivolity of waving her pale hair, and its tight little ridges, stiff as the tresses of an Assyrian statue, were flattened under a dotted veil which ended at the tip of her cold-reddened nose. In her scant jacket and skirt of black cashmere she looked singularly nipped and faded; but it seemed possible that under happier conditions she might still warm into relative youth."Why, Ann Eliza," she exclaimed, i..

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 20. April 2021
ISBN13 9798714796579
Verlag INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Seitenanzahl 82
Maße 127 × 203 × 4 mm   ·   90 g
Sprache Englisch  

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