Name: The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards
Author: Rupert Hughes
ISBN: 978-1347562536

The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards

By Rupert Hughes 2 Dec, 2020

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Brief Extract: Marie Louise wanted walls about her and stillness, and people shut out. She was in one of the moods when the soul longs to gather its faculties together in a family, making oneself of all selves. Marie Louise had known privation and homelessness and the perils they bring a young woman, and now she had riches and a father and mother who were great people in a great land, and who had adopted her into their own hearts, their lives, their name. But to-day she asked nothing more than a deep cranny in a dark cave. She would have said that no human voice or presence could be anything but torture to her. And yet, when she hurried up the steps, she was suddenly miraculously restored to cheerfulness by the tiny explosion of a child’s laughter instantly quenched. She knew that she was about to be ambushed as usual. She must pretend to be completely surprised once more, and altogether terrified with her perfect regularity. Less

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