The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales

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Bowen Marjorie. The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales

The Last Bouquet: Some Twilight Tales

Table of Contents

1.—THE LAST BOUQUET

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IV

2.—MADAM SPITFIRE

3.—THE FAIR HAIR OF AMBROSINE

No record of prior publication found

4.—THE HIDDEN APE

No record of prior publication found

5.—THE AVENGING OF ANN LEETE

Published in Seeing Life! And Other Stories, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1923

6.—THE CROWN DERBY PLATE

Published in Grace Latouche and the Warringtons, Selwyn & Blount,London, 1931

7.—THE PRESCRIPTION

First published in The London Magazine, Jan 1929. Not included in this e-book

8.—ELSIE'S LONELY AFTERNOON

9.—THE LADY CLODAGH

10.—A PLASTER SAINT

No record of prior publication found. Not included in this e-book

11.—FLORENCE FLANNERY

First published as "Florence Flannery—An Ornament in Regency Paste," 1924

12.—KECKSIES

Published in Seeing Life! And Other Stories, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1923

13.—THE SIGN-PAINTER AND THE CRYSTAL FISHES

Published in Grace Latouche and the Warringtons,Selwyn & Blount, London, 1931. I.—THE RIVER AND THE HOUSE

II.—THE RIVER AND THE GARDEN

14.—RAW MATERIAL

Published in Grace Latouche and the Warringtons,Selwyn & Blount, London, 1931

THE END

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Marjorie Bowen

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Martha had regretted, ah, surely, that she had forfeited her status as an English gentlewoman, that she had no part in Stibbards, and all that Stibbards meant. She had envied Kezia and the courage which had chosen the dull, monotonous way, the dignity that had clung to duty, the self-sacrifice, the austere decorum which would force even the most ribald and light-minded to respect Miss Kezia Faunce.

This obsession about Martha, which she had hoped a sight of her would efface, grew, on the contrary, from day to day, until it became almost unbearable.

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