The Children: Large Print

By: Wharton, Edith

As the big liner hung over the tugs swarming about her in the bay of Algiers, Martin Boyne looked down from the promenade deck on the troop of first-class passengers struggling up the gangway, their faces all unconsciously lifted to his inspection. "Not a soul I shall want to speak to-as usual " Some men's luck in travelling was inconceivable. They had only to get into a train or on board a boat to run across an old friend; or, what was more exciting, make a new one. They were always finding themselves in the same compartment, or in the same cabin, with some wandering celebrity, with the owner of a famous house, of a noted collection, or of an odd and amusing personality-the latter case being, of course, the rarest as it was the most rewarding. There was, for instance, Martin Boyne's own Great-Uncle Edward. Uncle Edward's travel-adventures were famed in the family. At home in America, amid the solemn upholstery of his Boston house, Uncle Edward was the model of complacent dulness; yet whenever he got on board a steamer, or into a train (or a diligence, in his distant youth), he was singled out by fate as the hero of some delightful encounter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B085RRP2Q1
• ISBN13: 9798626305371
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"