| Jacob's Room Contributor(s): Woolf, Virginia (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798683176471 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $11.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.48 lbs) 158 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...fall and possible demise-- for where was he? what was he? Shading her eyes, she looked along the road for Captain Barfoot--yes, there he was, punctual as ever; the attentions of the Captain--all ripened Betty Flanders, enlarged her figure, tinged her face with jollity, and flooded her eyes for no reason that any one could see perhaps three times a day.True, there's no harm in crying for one's husband, and the tombstone, though plain, was a solid piece of work, and on summer's days when the widow brought her boys to stand there one felt kindly towards her. Hats were raised higher than usual; wives tugged their husbands' arms. Seabrook lay six foot beneath, dead these many years; enclosed in three shells; the crevices sealed with lead, so that, had earth and wood been glass, doubtless his very face lay visible beneath, the face of a young man whiskered, shapely, who had gone out duck-shooting and refused to change his boots."Merchant of this city," the tombstone said; though why Betty Flanders h... |