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Set in Silver

C. N. Williamson

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 322 pages

Set in Silver is a novel by C. N. and A. M. Williamson, opening with a letter from Audrie Brendon to her mother in Switzerland. It recounts a motoring tour of England, mixing travel, romance and a lively epistolary voice. Listen for its period charm and the pleasures of an early motor journey.

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Opening of the book

Audrie
Audrie
SET IN SILVER
By
C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON
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ILLUSTRATED
Garden City    New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1913
All rights reserved, including that of translation
into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
Copyright, 1909, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

TO A GREAT MAN, AND A GREAT MOTORIST

With all admiration we dedicate our story

of a tour in the land he loves

"... this little world,

This precious stone, set in the silver sea

That serves it in the office of a wall,

Or as a moat defensive to a house,

Against the envy of less happier lands,

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."

SET IN SILVER

I

AUDRIE BRENDON TO HER MOTHER

AT CHAMPEL-LES-BAINS, SWITZERLAND

Rue

Chapeau

de

Marie

Antoinette,

Versailles,

July 4th

DĵǡƯƗƿƄ LƗǵǵƯŧ Fǡŧƿŕƒ MLjǵƒŧǡ: Things have happened. Firecrackers! Roman candles! rockets! But don't be frightened. They're all in my head. Nevertheless I haven't had such a Fourth of July since I was a small girl in America, and stood on a tin pail with a whole pack of fire-crackers popping away underneath.

Isn't it funny, when you have a lot to tell, it's not half as easy to write a letter as when you've nothing at all to say, and must make up for lack of matter by weaving phrases? Now, when I'm suffering from

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Contents

  1. SET IN SILVER
  2. C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON
  3. SET IN SILVER
  4. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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