Author: Mary Hastings Bradley

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-13

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781331339717

Excerpt from The Wine of Astonishment From the shadows of the front room he flung his announcement at them, distrusting the clear light of scrutiny. His excitement possessed him too visibly. It rang out under the deceptive casualness of his young voice. He was on fire to be off to his adventure. He felt himself a man, an explorer, a free lance. It was maddening to have to thrust his head into the family living room and tell his parents that he was going over to Henry's for all night. And parents are not too easily satisfied. His father merely glanced up from the inevitable book, but his mother put down her magazine and told him to come in. He came with reluctance, a tall, high-shouldered boy of eighteen with gray eyes that looked dark under their black lashes and dark hair at war with the flat rigors of its youthful mode. Every step he took into the room made him less the man and adventurer until only a boy stood before his mother, impatiently apprehensive of adult curiosity and restriction. His mother merely told him not to be late for church in the morning. If he must stay with friends all night she wanted him home next day in season. What were they going to do? Nothing in particular? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.