[The Captives by Hugh Walpole]@TWC D-Link bookThe Captives CHAPTER IV 42/61
I'm not very strong now really.
They say it's heart, but I always say it can't be that because I've given it all away." Here Miss Smith laughed immoderately. "Weren't they the most terrible set of frumps at chapel this morning ?" She did not wait for an answer, but went on: "Mr.Warlock's all right, of course.
I think he's such a fine-looking man, don't you? Of course he's old now, but his beard's rather attractive I think.
He's a duck, but isn't that harmonium ghastly? I can't think why they don't buy an organ, they're most awfully rich I know, and do simply nothing with their money." "Why do you go," said Maggie, "if you think it all so dreadful ?" "Oh! I have to go," said Miss Smith, "to please mother.
And one has to do something on Sunday, and besides one sees one's friends.
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