Tales of the Five Towns

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Arnold Bennett. Tales of the Five Towns

Tales of the Five Towns

Table of Contents

PART I. AT HOME

HIS WORSHIP THE GOOSEDRIVER

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II

III

IV

THE ELIXIR OF YOUTH

MARY WITH THE HIGH HAND

THE DOG

I

II

III

IV

V

A FEUD

PHANTOM

I

II

III

IV

V

TIDDY-FOL-LOL

THE IDIOT

PART II. ABROAD

THE HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

I

II

III

IV

V

THE SISTERS QITA

NOCTURNE AT THE MAJESTIC

I

II

III

IV

CLARICE OF THE AUTUMN CONCERTS

I

II

III

A LETTER HOME [2]

I

II

III

THE END

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Arnold Bennett

Published by Good Press, 2019

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She gazed at him with a look that might mean anything. Did she raise her cheek to his greeting, or was it fancy that she had endured, rather than accepted, his kiss? He was scarcely sure. And if she had endured instead of accepting the kiss, was her mood to be attributed to his lateness for tea, or to the fact that she was aware of the episode of the geese? He could not divine.

'Pikelets! Good!' he exclaimed, taking the cover off the dish.

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