| | 1 | Author: | Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 | Add | | | Title: | Zuleika Dobson / Max Beerbohm ; Introduction by Francis Hackett  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT old bell, presage of a train, had just
sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates
who were waiting there, gay figures
in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the
platform and gazed idly up the line. Young
and careless, in the glow of the afternoon sunshine,
they struck a sharp note of incongruity
with the worn boards they stood on, with the
fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique
station, which, familiar to them and insignificant,
does yet whisper to the tourist the last
enchantments of the Middle Age. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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