Voss - pg. 7

With rough persistence he accused her of the superficiality which she herself suspected. At times she could hear her own voice. She was also afraid of the country which, for lack of any other, she supposed was hers. But this fear, like certain dreams, was something to which she would never have admitted.

Voss - Opening

Chapter 1

"THERE is a man here, miss, asking for your uncle," said Rose.

And stood breathing.

"What man?" asked the young woman, who was engaged upon some embroidery of a difficult nature, at which she was nor forced to look more closely, holding the little frame to the light. "Or is it perhaps a gentleman?"

For

Marie d'Estournelles de Constant

Copyright 1957 by Patrick White

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First published in 1957 by The Viking Press, Inc.

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Published simultaneously in Canada by

The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited

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Library of Congress catalog card number: 57-9493

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