The King of the Mountains (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781517639334)

On the 3d of July, about six o'clock in the morning, I was watering my flowers. A young man entered the garden. He was blonde, beardless; he wore a German cap and sported gold spectacles. A long, loose woolen coat, or paletot, drooped in a melancholy way around his form, like a sail around a mast in a calm. He wore no gloves; his tan leather shoes had such large soles, that the foot was surrounded by a narrow flange. In the breast-pocket of his paletot, a huge porcelain pipe bulged half-way out. I did not stop to ask myself whether this young man was a student in the German Universities; I put down my watering-pot, and saluted him with: "Guten Morgen "

Author: Edmond About
ISBN-10: 1517639336
ISBN-13: 9781517639334
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/16/2015
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d