Carolina Quotes“I wish they’d hurry up with the second scene,” said Mrs. Viveash. “If there’s anything that bores me, it’s entr’actes.” “Most of one's life is an entr’acte,” said Gumbril.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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Ch. 16
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- Antic Hay (1923)
- year
- 1923
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