Storm in the Village Quotes

“tortoise stoves,”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“Don’t care was made to care,
Don’t care was hung!
Don’t care was put in a pot
And boiled till he was done!”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“Country Things’ by Alison Utley, ‘The Diary of a Provincial Lady’ by E. M. Delafield, ‘Winnie the Pooh’ by A. A. Milne, an anthology of modern verse, and one of Basil Bradley’s novels bearing a reclining Regency beauty on its dust jacket.”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“the windowsill the scent of honeysuckle wafted down, from a fine bunch which had been stuffed by a child’s hand into a Virol jar.”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“vague, charming old lady, wearing a black cartwheel hat which gave her some trouble.”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“raffia hats, wool-embroidered egg-cosies”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“stakes which supported the ropes of the bowling-for-the-pig site. Mr Roberts was busy building a sturdy wall of straw bales near him.”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“kitchen ceding.”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“Take back all I said! See my finger wet, see my finger dry, may I slit my throat, if——”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village

“You shouldn’t ’ave lifted that, miss! Might’ve raptured yourself. Easy enough to get a rapture, heaving rocks like that!’ I said meekly that I was only trying to clear the place up. ‘Ah! I daresay!’ said Mr Willet gravely, ‘but you wants to give a thought to your organs now and again.’ I promised that I would give my organs every consideration in the future and Mr Willet seemed mollified.”
― Miss Read, Storm in the Village