A Week in Winter: A NovelMacmillan, 06 մյս, 2002 թ. - 352 էջ Any reader who has ever fallen in love with a house will understand the attraction of Moorgate, a light-and-fresh-air-filled old farmhouse on the edge of the moor in Cornwall. The enchanting house now belongs to seventy-something Maudie Todhunter, the late Lord Todhunter's free-spirited second wife. (The first wife, Hilda, was supposedly a paragon of virtue, and Maudie has always felt second-best.) The light of Maudie's life is her vivacious stepgranddaughter, Posy, who begs Maudie to board a giant English mastiff whom Posy's mean-spirited mother has banned from the house. (The large and ungainly Polonius is an impossibly lovable canine who outshines Lassie by a mile and is destined to become a favorite of readers worldwide.) |
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Արդյունքներ 86–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... Maudie had to turn the card to read it , ' that you promised to think about Polonius . Mum's saying that he'll have to go to the Dacres . Pleeeze , Maudie ! ... Maudie shuddered . The idea of housing the boisterous Polonius , a large ...
... Maudie , ignoring her mother's sulks , field- ing her accusations of disloyalty , bearing with her ability to make life extremely tiresome . Posy was quite bright enough to know that Maudie might well house Polonius simply in order to ...
... Maudie still struggled against the resent- ment which had festered intermittently for thirty years , cor- roding and insistent , clouding happiness , destroying peace and now Hector was dead too . Maudie gathered up the scraps of ...
... Maudie's ad- vancing years - I'm seventy - two , child ! ' protestingly . ' So ? ' impatiently and was now suggesting that Maudie should drive to Winchester to see her new quarters , meet her fellow students and share a pint or two at ...
... Maudie knew what they were saying and revelled in it . Once married to Hector she'd acquired a reputation for tact- lessness , for laughing at quite the wrong moment , for a wor- rying lack of respect for the hierarchy , whilst on the ...
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