The Money Market
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781417946624
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; General; Fiction / General; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: THE curtain fell on the second act of Tristan und Isolde, and Lady Stoakley, who had been regarding the stage with a rigid and unmeaning eye, and sitting very upright, leaned back in her chair in the corner of the box, and, opening her fan, began to wave it to and fro, less with the object of cooling herself-for it was a June night with a temperature like that of midwinter in the polar regions-than of occupying her hands; indeed, she shivered as she fanned herself.