“You’ll never marry, dear,” I said, to tease Alex. “Your friend Mrs. Cullen thinks you will, but she has no imagination. You’ll be afraid to, after this fantastic bad luck.”
“What bad luck, if you please?” she inquired, smiling to show that my mockery was welcome.
“Fantastic bad object lessons.”
“You’re no novelist,” she said, to tease me. “I envy the Cullens, didn’t you know?” And I concluded from the look on her face that she herself did not quite know whether she meant it.
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Cover image: Paul Cadmus, Mannikins, 1951; © Jon F. Anderson, Estate of Paul Cadmus; licensed by VAGA, New York, NY; photograph courtesy DC Moore Gallery, NY
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First published by Harper and Brothers in 1940
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The pilgrim hawk : a love story / Glenway Wescott.
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ISBN 0-940322-56-0
1. Americans—France—Fiction. 2. Irish—France—Fiction. 3. Novelists—Fiction. 4. France—Fiction. 5. Hawks—Fiction. I. Title.
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