American fiction -- 20th century; Short stories, American
The king was working in the garden. He seemed very glad to see me. We
walked through the garden. This is the queen, he said. She was
clipping a rose bush. Oh how do you do, she said. We sat down at a
table under a big tree and the king ordered whiskey and soda. We have
good whiskey anyway, he said. The revolutionary committee, he told
me, would not allow him to go outside the palace grounds. Plastiras
is a very good man I believe, he said, but frightfully difficult. I
think he did right though shooting those chaps. If Kerensky had shot
a few men things might have been altogether different. Of course the
great thing in this sort of an affair is not to be shot oneself!
It was very jolly. We talked for a long time. Like all Greeks he
wanted to go to America.
Here ends _The Inquest_ into the state
of contemporary English prose, as
edited by Ezra Pound and printed at
the Three Mountains Press. The six
works constituting the series are:
Indiscretions _of_ Ezra Pound
Women and Men _by_ Ford Madox Ford
Elimus _by_ B. C. Windeler
with Designs _by_ D. Shakespear
The Great American Novel
_by_ William Carlos Williams
England _by_ B.M.G.-Adams
In Our Time _by_ Ernest Hemingway
with Portrait _by_ Henry Strater
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
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