Malvina of Brittany

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Джером К. Джером. Malvina of Brittany

Malvina of Brittany

Table of Contents

THE PREFACE

I. THE STORY

II. HOW IT CAME ABOUT

III. HOW COUSIN CHRISTOPHER BECAME MIXED UP WITH IT

IV. HOW IT WAS KEPT FROM MRS. ARLINGTON

V. HOW IT WAS TOLD TO MRS. MARIGOLD

VI. AND HOW IT WAS FINISHED TOO SOON

THE PROLOGUE

THE STREET OF THE BLANK WALL

HIS EVENING OUT

THE LESSON

SYLVIA OF THE LETTERS

THE FAWN GLOVES

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Jerome K. Jerome

Published by Good Press, 2019

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It ought to have sounded so ridiculous to them both; told on English soil in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fourteen to a smart young officer of Engineers and an elderly Oxford Professor. Across the road the doctor's odd man was opening garage doors; a noisy milk cart was clattering through the village a little late for the London train; a faint odour of eggs and bacon came wafted through the garden, mingled with the scent of lavender and pinks. For Commander Raffleton, maybe, there was excuse. This story, so far as it has gone, has tried to make that clear. But the Professor! He ought to have exploded in a burst of Homeric laughter, or else to have shaken his head at her and warned her where little girls go to who do this sort of thing.

Instead of which he stared from Commander Raffleton to Malvina, and from Malvina back to Commander Raffleton with eyes so astonishingly round that they might have been drawn with a compass.

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