Hopping

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Melanie McGrath. Hopping

HOPPING

PREFACE

Contents

EPILOGUE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Also by Melanie McGrath

Copyright

About the Publisher

Отрывок из книги

For Tai, who looked forward to this book.

CHARLES DICKENS, The Pickwick Papers

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Oh, my knees and knuckles, Daisy said, Franny Crommelin, what have you done?

You said sit still as the clock, Franny cried in a voice ripe with indignation, but the clock moved! Daisy glanced towards the mantelpiece, where the clock was still in the place it had always been, its spot marked out on the mantel in dust and smuts from the fire. But ten minutes had passed and the hands of the clock had indeed moved.

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