The Ides of March, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Where children are not, heaven is not, and heaven if they come not again Shall he never But the face and the voice of a child are assurance of heaven and its promise for ever! A. C. Swinburne.

With a plaintiveness born only of summer night and summer sea, the band at the end of the pier was sobbing out the dying notes of a waltz. The sound floated in, lazily, like the scarcely-stirred air, through the Windows of one of the large houses on the esplanade. Vol. II.

The occupants Of the house had just done dining; they were at dessert.

The host leaned back in his chair and tasted his wine his wife rested her round white arms on the table-cloth, and tried, not very successfully, to peel some early walnuts; their guest sat in a reverie, absently fingering the stem of his wine glass.

Outside, there sounded distinctly the patter Of hurrying feet on the asphalte parade; laughter and voices also were tossed in at the window in snatches; the low murmur of the sea was soothingly audible. A silence had fallen on the trio.

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