Oke of Okehurst, page 8

Oke of Okehurst, page 8
Authors : Lee, Vernon

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Date1886-Spring to August

GenreManuscript

LangueEnglish

SourceFonds de dotation André et Berthe Noufflard, Paris
Archives Langweil-Halévy-Noufflard, Paris

Couverture61 rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris, France

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Blackburn-Daniels, Sally (transcription)
Geoffroy, Sophie (digital photograph and scientific edition)
Walter, Richard (digital edition)

ÉditeurHolographical-Lee, Sophie Geoffroy, University of La Réunion; programme EMAN (Thalim, ENS-CNRS-Sorbonne nouvelle)

Mentions légalesRecord : Project EMAN, Holographical-Lee, Sophie Geoffroy, University of La Réunion & Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes, CNRS-ENS. Licence Creative Commons Attribution – Share alike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0 FR) With the kind permission of André et Berthe Noufflard.

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My spirits sank lower and lower. I began to meditate upon the modern Gothic country-house , with the usual amount of Morris furniture, Liberty rugs, and Mudie novels, to which I was doubtless being taken. My fancy pictured very vividly the five or six little Okes xxx--that man certainly must have five children--the aunts, and sisters-in-law, and cousins; the eternal routine of afternoon tea and lawn-tennis; above all, it pictured Mrs. Oke, the bouncing, well-informed, model housekeeper, electioneering, charity-organising young lady, whom such an individual as Mr. Oke would regard in the light of a remarkable woman. And my spirit sank within me, and I cursed my xxxx avarice in accepting the commission, my spiritlessness in not throwing it over while yet there was time. We had meanwhile driven into a large park, or rather a long succession of grazing-grounds, dotted about with large oaks, under which the sheep were huddled together for shelter from the rain. In the distance, blurred by the

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Lee, Vernon, Oke of Okehurst, page 8, 1886-Spring to August. Holographical-Lee, Sophie Geoffroy, University of La Réunion; programme EMAN (Thalim, ENS-CNRS-Sorbonne nouvelle). Manuscript Blackburn-Daniels, Sally . Consulted on 2025/05/16 on the EMAN platform : https://eman-archives.org/HoL/files/show/7590

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