The Brass Bottle - 9781544082387

This day six weeks-just six weeks ago! Horace Ventimore said, half aloud, to himself, and pulled out his watch. "Half-past twelve-what was I doing at half-past twelve?" As he sat at the window of his office in Great Cloister Street, Westminster, he made his thoughts travel back to a certain glorious morning in August which now seemed so remote and irrecoverable. At this precise time he was waiting on the balcony of the H?tel de la Plage-the sole hostelry of St. Luc-en-Port, the tiny Normandy watering-place upon which, by some happy inspiration, he had lighted during a solitary cycling tour-waiting until She should appear. He could see the whole scene: the tiny cove, with the violet shadow of the cliff sleeping on the green water; the swell of the waves lazily lapping against the diving-board from which he had plunged half an hour before; he remembered the long swim out to the buoy; the exhilarated anticipation with which he had dressed and climbed the steep path to the hotel terrace.

Author: Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Mar 26, 2017

Number of Pages: 190 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 154408238X

ISBN-13: 9781544082387