The Plunge (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Plunge The Parish Church was disgorging its prey. The organist, apparently by pulling out all the stops and stamping on all the pedals of his instrument, evoked a vast final blare which seemed to waft the last stragglers into the porch like leaves before a mighty wind, and Katharine Trafford, who had been standing near the organ, hurried down the aisle to join her father and her aunt. Aunt Cely was in the act of unfurling her umbrella. There was no sign of rain; the sky was sown with stars; but Aunt Cely always put up her umbrella shortly after sunset. It acted as a buffer. As she said, you never knew who mightn´t knock you down in the dusk. Mr Trafford had gagged and bound himself with a large grey muffler. The march home began. "What always strikes me especially about Archdeacon Tellings," warbled Aunt Cely as they made their way down the dark church walk, "is his really wonderful delivery." Aunt Cely invariably produced this remark when the Archdeacon preached. To Katharine it always conveyed vague suggestions of cricket, but she dutifully responded, "Yes, isn´t it?" and dodged one of the prongs of her aunt´s umbrella rather cleverly. Mr Trafford grunted once behind his gag. "Towards the end of the sermon," Aunt Cely continued, "he positively boomed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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