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3-book collection: Excellent Women / Crampton Hodnet / No Fond Return of Love
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Barbara Pym5 ratings, 4.40 average rating, 4 reviews
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“I was sitting in the window this afternoon and as it was a fine day I had it open at the bottom, when I felt something drop into my lap. And do you know what it was?' She turned and peered at me intently.
I said that I had no idea.
'Unpleasantness.' She said, almost triumphantly. Then lowering her voice she explained, 'From a bird, you see.'
'How annoying,' I said, feeling mesmerized and unable even to laugh.
'And that's not the worst,' she went on, rummaging in a small desk which stood open and seemed to be full of old newspapers. 'Read this.' She handed me a cutting headed OWL BITES WOMAN, from which I read that an owl had flown in through a cottage window one evening and bitten a woman on the chin. 'And this,' she went on, handing me another cutting which told how a swan had knocked a girl off her bicycle. 'What do you think of that?”
― 3-book collection: Excellent Women / Crampton Hodnet / No Fond Return of Love
I said that I had no idea.
'Unpleasantness.' She said, almost triumphantly. Then lowering her voice she explained, 'From a bird, you see.'
'How annoying,' I said, feeling mesmerized and unable even to laugh.
'And that's not the worst,' she went on, rummaging in a small desk which stood open and seemed to be full of old newspapers. 'Read this.' She handed me a cutting headed OWL BITES WOMAN, from which I read that an owl had flown in through a cottage window one evening and bitten a woman on the chin. 'And this,' she went on, handing me another cutting which told how a swan had knocked a girl off her bicycle. 'What do you think of that?”
― 3-book collection: Excellent Women / Crampton Hodnet / No Fond Return of Love
