Frank Baker

Miss Hargreaves

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  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted5 years ago
    A Friend for Tea

    ‘Muffins for tea!’ he used to cry,

    And fall into my chair.

    Above the soda-cake, tobacco

    Smoke lay on the air.

    Exhausted after Evening Prayer

    He’d play himself at Solitaire,

    Toy vaguely with his third éclair–

    Happy young hostess I!

    Now when I light my lamp and drain

    My cup beside the fire,

    I see the ghost of him I lack. Oh

    Memory retire!

    Muffins for tea . . . My thoughts conspire

    To conjure up King’s College Choir

    And happy days in Cambridgeshire

    That will not come again.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted6 years ago
    When I wrote essays at school I was always told to begin at the beginning and end at the end. I’m not at all sure that this story has an end. As for a beginning–well, in my opinion it really begins–as I began–with my father. Anyway that’s where I’m going to start.
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted6 years ago
    Huntley’s bookshop is as well known as the Cathedral. Most days I work there with father, except when I’m studying music. We sell everything, modern and old, any language you like. Though I say it myself, Cornelius Huntley knows a good deal more about books than you’d imagine from his rather muddled talk.
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