The Blower of Bubbles

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Beverley Baxter. The Blower of Bubbles

The Blower of Bubbles

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PETITE SIMUNDE

THE MAN WHO SCOFFED

THE AIRY PRINCE

MR. CRAIGHOUSE OF NEW YORK, SATIRIST

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Beverley Baxter

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Conscientious form-masters recognized his extraordinary abilities, and gave him the benefit of well-worded and impressive homilies on achievement. Sometimes for effect they quoted Latin. Norman would counter with a "Greek remark." He never studied, but more than one scholar owed success to the eleventh-hour coaching of Basil Norman. Learning, like everything else, came to him as a needle to a magnet.

With a curious air of detachment he watched the panorama of schoolboy life, noticing with a discerning eye the various strata upon which public-school morality is founded, assigning the relative importance of scholarship and cricket, and nodding knowingly as the process of standardization brought similarity of speech, accent, thought, and vocabulary to all his fellows.

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