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 76–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
... watching the small figures of men as they prepared to stop work for the day . The old house was being renovated . Even from this dis- tance he could see the evidence of it in the yard : piles of tim- ber , a small bonfire still smoking ...
... watching brief from a distance . ' Pure dog - in - the - manger , ' Maudie had observed crossly to Daphne , after one of these sessions down memory lane with her stepdaughter . ' She hasn't been there for years . Sen- timental hogwash ...
... watching him as he turned away , sip- ping his tea , staring out across the moor , and felt a twinge of uneasiness . Rob Abbot was the last person in the world to let his imagination run away with him but he seemed rather dis- tant ...
... watched as he indicated the door to the office , turned the knob , put his weight against it and pushed . ' Yes , well , that's not going anywhere , is it ? ' ' It's a lovely old oak door and I don't want it broken , ' he said . ' Come ...
... watched her dispassionately , attempting to call up some shred of sympathy . If Selina had ever really mourned the passing of her mother , any genuine grief had been buried long since beneath her almost pathological dislike of Maudie ...
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