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He had a short grey beard, but there was not a single hair upon his acorn-coloured head.
‘Nothin’ like a good fry for breakfast,’ said Ezra. ‘An’ a nice strong cup o’ tea. Settles the stomach.’
four beehives
an old grey church
tower that soared so far i...
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what she heard and smelt matched what she had seen. Yet it seemed too good to be true.
Perhaps there were two Ezras, a midnight one and a daytime one,
anything was possible in a place like this.
‘As I be now, maid, I couldn’t ’ave done it,’ he said. ‘But as I were then I done it easy.’
Andromache had all the drying-up cloths to make the basket soft for her kittens.
Haha
Haha
obedience, which had seemed so difficult at Grandmama’s, came easily here,
Betsy
Haha
Haha
Betsy,
Simile
Haha
Robert, look after your pony.
Haha
Haha
Haha
‘You danced in the night?’ he ejaculated. ‘What am I clasping to my bosom? Four young bacchanalians?
Haha
Never in my sixty-five years of mortal life have I seen my poor old mother so favourably impressed by a humble suggestion of my own.
Haha
This has come upon us for our sins.
Haha
For a few moments there was pandemonium,
a wonderful golden silence,
Simile!
marvellously transformed into Uncle Ambrose,
Haha
Haha
Haha
I must tell you that I have a devouring passion, not for children themselves, for I abominate children, but for educating them.
No wonder he “dislikes” children! And 30 years - what did he do between 20 and 30?
Yes, I’ve missed my boys these last five years.
‘You can do what you like with us so long as you let us stay with you and each other and Absolom.
We have to stay with each other.’
Home’s the place for girls, though they should have a classical education there.
‘Six and not read? I could read Homer at four. She’ll read him by eight.
In the Greek, no doubt
‘Six and not read? I could read Homer at four. She’ll read him by eight.
Haha
Haha
For the rest of each day you will be free to go where you like and do what you like.
‘I shall now take a short nap,’ said Uncle Ambrose. ‘Tea is at five, with muffins and strawberry jam.
Haha
Haha
Emma Cobley, Post and General Stores.
Simile, p. 14
stone lions on top of the pillars and sitting on top of one of the lions was a monkey,
‘There’s the shop, the Bulldog, that wood, the hill with the rocks on top and whatever is inside those gates. Where shall we go first?’
