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The Generation Between
Excerpt from The Generation Between
Thomasine Latimer sat alone in the schoolroom late in the afternoon of an October day. She sat leaning back in her chair, her feet outstretched, her hands grasping the edge of the ink-stained table, her brows meeting over her eyes in a heavy frown.
Face down on the table before her was a soiled and dog-eared copy of Mr. Belloc's - 'Path to Rome," and not once but many times had she read and re-read that sentence in the beginning of the book which defines "the moment (not the year or the month, mind you, or even the hour, but the very second) when a man is grown up, when he sees things as they are... and feels solidly for himself."
And thus Thomasine sat and scowled, for it seemed to her that that moment had come.
To be young, says the poet, is to be happy.
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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.
Thomasine Latimer sat alone in the schoolroom late in the afternoon of an October day. She sat leaning back in her chair, her feet outstretched, her hands grasping the edge of the ink-stained table, her brows meeting over her eyes in a heavy frown.
Face down on the table before her was a soiled and dog-eared copy of Mr. Belloc's - 'Path to Rome," and not once but many times had she read and re-read that sentence in the beginning of the book which defines "the moment (not the year or the month, mind you, or even the hour, but the very second) when a man is grown up, when he sees things as they are... and feels solidly for himself."
And thus Thomasine sat and scowled, for it seemed to her that that moment had come.
To be young, says the poet, is to be happy.
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.
345 pages, Paperback
First published April 10, 2009
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March 5, 2014
I love this novel. The original publication date is 1915. There's more about it and other C.M. Matheson novels at the page for her in Wikipedia.
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