The Pot Boils: A Novel (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, Nov 24, 2017 - 320 pages
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La Joyeuse had half repented of her whim when he came. She gave him tea in thin blue cups, and he talked to her gravely of Ronsard and Villon. The room was one of her artistic whims: heavy green rugs covered the smooth green tiles of the floor the hot sun came through curtains of iridescent green and blue from one wall a pale virgin of Cimabue looked down upon the deep couch, covered with a Chintz of shimmering peacocks and blue-green myrtle leaves.

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