Four Strange Women (2015)
“It seemed much like any other parish hall let out occasionally for public or private use, though certainly in a very good state of repair and maintenance, and furnished exceptionally well. But then perhaps the absent Mr. Glynne, if that were his real name, had not wished the clergy of St. Jude’s to find his generosity lacking in any respect whatever. Bobby congratulated the caretaker, whom he had discovered not at home but in the bar of the ‘Eagle and Serpent’ at the corner of the Edgware Road.... The congratulations were accepted with complacence.
“Not as Mr. Ebbutt,” admitted the caretaker, “is like some as’ll let a place go to rack and ruin for lack of a ha’porth of paint. We get a very good class here,” he added; “them curtains was fitted at their own expense by one lot.”
“Really?” said Bobby, for the passing tenant is seldom so generous, and he had already noticed the dark and carefully fitted curtains, exceptional in days before ‘black outs’ became necessary.MoreLess
“Not as Mr. Ebbutt,” admitted the caretaker, “is like some as’ll let a place go to rack and ruin for lack of a ha’porth of paint. We get a very good class here,” he added; “them curtains was fitted at their own expense by one lot.”
“Really?” said Bobby, for the passing tenant is seldom so generous, and he had already noticed the dark and carefully fitted curtains, exceptional in days before ‘black outs’ became necessary.MoreLess
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