Е. Г. Тигонен

He would have expected me to have been at some clip-joint talking tough to a blonde or wrestling rough with some redhead.

“Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it. The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.”

to an heir born accidentally at the last possible minute when earlier intended pregnancies had produced five daughters. My frail eightysix year old father in his second childhood saw me chiefly as the means whereby a much hated cousin was to be done out of an earldom 2 he had coveted: my father delighted in my existence and I remained to him a symbol.

made it a good deal further

A church baby we like to call it.

bear so heavy and unwelcome tidings; but it is the will of God that the prince’s aflfiction abideth still

was not much hurt, but in her fall one of the Silver Shoes came off; and before she could reach it, the Witch had snatched it away and put it on her own skinny foot.