Famous painting
"I suppose it will be all right if I just practise a few iron shots in the park?" asked Lucy.
"Oh, yes, certainly. Are you fond of golf?"
"I'm not much good, but I like to keep in practise. It's a more agreeable form of exercise than just going for a walk."
"Nowhere to walk outside this," growled Mr. Crackenthorpe. "Nothing but pavements and miserable little band boxes of houses. Like to get hold of my land and build more of them. But they won't until I'm dead. And I'm not going to die to oblige anybody. I can tell you that! Not to oblige anybody!"
Emma Crackenthorpe said mildly:
Famous painting
"Now, father."
"I know what they think – and what they're waiting for. All of them. Cedric, and that sly fox Harold with his smug face. As for Alfred, I wonder he hasn't had a shot at bumping me off himself. Not sure he didn't, at Christmas-time. That was a very odd turn I had. Puzzled old Quimper. He asked me a lot of discreet questions."
"Everyone gets these digestive upsets now and again, father."
Famous painting
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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