There is really too much noise and nothing can be heard. From the
tables in the large dining saloon of the Prinz Regent Luitpold the
medley of sounds comes as from a telephone, with alternate tulness
and intervals of quiet, and in scattered masses, like cloud rising
and subsiding before a whirlwind. Every table serves as a nucleus
for its own nebula, and the fringes get mixed with that next to it.
English, French, Italian float in the air, intermingle, allowing
for an instant some polite predominance to one or the other, but
promptly breaking out again all together, each having the effect of
endeavouring to drown the opposing sounds, and reproducing that
telephonic babel which rendered conversation so completely.
indistinguishable. My companion had to raise his voice he was a
French lieutenant de vaisseau, and the commander of the submarine .
. . .
General
| Imprint: |
Read Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2008 |
| First published: |
November 2008 |
| Authors: |
C. Collodi
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
236 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4437-7084-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-4437-7084-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781443770842 |
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