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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... remember the next lines . A handful of chill rain made him blink and he began to hurry , the verse forgotten , his mind now on supper : his land- lady's warm kitchen , hot , strong tea and the comforting smell of cooking . He did not ...
... Remembering the scene , Maudie chuckled again , briefly , then grew sober . What would Selina say when she discovered that Moorgate was about to be put on the market ? The elderly tenants had died and Maudie had brooded long as to ...
... remember ever having them . ' Maudie frowned , cudgelling recalcitrant memory . ' I'm quite certain I gave him the whole set , ' she said firmly . ' As I recall , there was only ever the one complete set of keys and I thought it ...
... remember rightly . ' It was odd - odd and altogether delightful - how she and Hector had so quickly drawn together . Laughing , shar- ing his hip flask , making light of the difficulties - the brief episode had been romantic , unreal ...
... remember the warmth she'd felt at Daphne's brief embrace . There had been a genuine liking , discernible even in such an artificial setting ; a warmth that had thawed Maudie's wariness . ' I like Daphne , ' she'd said later , over their ...
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