| The Imitator Contributor(s): Pollard, Percival (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544708092 ISBN-13: 9781544708096 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Orson Vane dropped, as if it had been a mask, the ironical smile his lips had worn. "You want sincerity," he said, "well, then I shall be sincere. Sincerity makes wrinkles, but it is the privilege of our friends to make us old before our time. Sincerely, then, Luke, I am very, very tired." "A fashionable imitation," mocked Moncreith. "No; a personal aversion, to myself, to the world I live in. I wish the dear old governor hadn't been such a fine fellow; if he had been of the newer generation of fathers I suppose I wouldn't have had an ideal to bless myself with." Moncreith interrupted. "Good Lord, Luke, did you say ideals? I swear I never knew it was as bad as that." He beckoned to the waiter and ordered a Dominican. "It is so ideal a liquor that when you have tasted it you crave only for brutalities. Poor Orson Ideals " He sighed elaborately. "If you imitate my manner of a while ago, I shall not say what I was going to say. If I am to be sincere, so must you. |
