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The Matador of The Five Towns
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ISBN10: 1515138844
ISBN13: 9781515138846
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 24 2015
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.55 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781515138846
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 24 2015
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.55 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Excerpt from The Matador of the Five Towns: And Other Stories
Mrs Brindley looked across the lunch-table at her husband with glinting, eager eyes, which showed that there was something unusual in the brain behind them.
Bob, she said, factitiously calm, You don't know what I've just remembered!
Mrs Brindley looked across the lunch-table at her husband with glinting, eager eyes, which showed that there was something unusual in the brain behind them.
Bob, she said, factitiously calm, You don't know what I've just remembered!
Well? said he.
It's only grandma's birthday to-day!
My friend Robert Brindley, the architect, struck the table with a violent fist, making his little boys blink, and then he said quietly:
The deuce!
I gathered that grandmamma's birthday had been forgotten and that it was not a festival that could be neglected with impurity. Both Mr and Mrs Brindley had evidently a humorous appreciation of crises, contretemps, and those collisions of circumstances which are usually called junctures for short. I could have imagined either of them saying to the other Here's a funny thing! The house is on fire! And then yielding to laughed now; she gazed at the table-cloth and laughed now; she gazed at the table-cloth an laughed almost silently to herself; though it appeared that their joint forgetfulness might result in temporary estrangement from a venerable ancestor who was also, birthdays being duly observed, a continual fount of rich presents in specie.
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It's only grandma's birthday to-day!
My friend Robert Brindley, the architect, struck the table with a violent fist, making his little boys blink, and then he said quietly:
The deuce!
I gathered that grandmamma's birthday had been forgotten and that it was not a festival that could be neglected with impurity. Both Mr and Mrs Brindley had evidently a humorous appreciation of crises, contretemps, and those collisions of circumstances which are usually called junctures for short. I could have imagined either of them saying to the other Here's a funny thing! The house is on fire! And then yielding to laughed now; she gazed at the table-cloth and laughed now; she gazed at the table-cloth an laughed almost silently to herself; though it appeared that their joint forgetfulness might result in temporary estrangement from a venerable ancestor who was also, birthdays being duly observed, a continual fount of rich presents in specie.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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