Oke of Okehurst, page 10

Oke of Okehurst, page 10
Auteurs : Lee, Vernon

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Date1886-Printemps à Août

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LangueAnglais

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 (photographie numérique et édition scientifique)
Walter, Richard (édition numérique)

ÉditeurHolographical-Lee, Sophie Geoffroy, Université de La Réunion ; projet EMAN (Thalim, ENS-CNRS-Sorbonne nouvelle)

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pictured the home of Mr. Oke of Okehurst.

My host recieved me in the hall, a large place, huge panelled and carved, hung round with portraits up to its curious ceiling--vaulted and ribbed like the inside of a ship's hull. He looked even more blond and pink and white, more absolutely mediocre in his tweed suit; and also, I thought, even more good-natured an duller. He took me into his study, a room hung round with whips and fishing tackle in place of books, * while my things were being carried upstairs. It was very damp, and a fire was smouldering. He gave the embers a nervous kick with his foot, and said, as he offered me a cigar-- "You must excuse my not intoroducing you at once to Mrs. Oke. My wife--in short, I believe my wife is asleep."

"Is Mrs. Oke unwell?" I asked, a sudden hope flashing across me that I might be off the whole matter.

"Oh no! Alice is quite well; at least, quite as well as she usually is. My wife," he added after

a minute, and in a very decided tone, "does not enjoy very good health--a nervous constitution. Oh no! not

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Lee, Vernon, Oke of Okehurst, page 10, 1886-Printemps à Août. Holographical-Lee, Sophie Geoffroy, Université de La Réunion ; projet EMAN (Thalim, ENS-CNRS-Sorbonne nouvelle). Manuscrit Blackburn-Daniels, Sally Consulté le 15/05/2025 sur la plate-forme EMAN : https://eman-archives.org/HoL/files/show/7592

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