August Folly

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Angela Margaret Thirkell. August Folly

August Folly

Table of Contents

I. RAILWAY AFFAIRS

II. BEGINNING OF ROMANCE

III. INTRODUCTION TO A FAMILY

IV. REHEARSAL WITH INTERLUDES

V. COOKS IN THE KITCHEN

VI. ONE WAY OF LOVE

VII. THE DAY OF MISFORTUNES

VIII. ESSAY IN CRITICISM

IX. REHEARSAL WITH CATASTROPHE

X. ANOTHER WAY OF LOVE

XI. A CASE OF CONSCIENCE

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Angela Margaret Thirkell

Published by Good Press, 2021

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‘I’ll wait for cheese,’ said Mr. Tebben. ‘The Vikings had more sense, so had the Icelanders. The very idea of an open-air theatre was abhorrent to them, if indeed they ever thought of it. Their national literature, stories of gods and heroes, was familiar to them, and they would have laughed, yes, laughed, at the idea of dramatising what was already in the highest degree dramatic. We find no traces of open-air theatres in Norway or Iceland. Practical people, they realised that an open-air parliament, for so, very roughly, one may describe the Thing, or All-Thing, was enough strain on anyone, without resorting to open-air entertainments. If they wanted to be entertained they sat at home, by a fire, and had their skald to recite to them.’

‘More like the wireless,’ said Mrs. Tebben, sympathetically. ‘Cheese, dear? We are just finishing up this hard bit before Richard comes, if you don’t mind.’

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