| Author: | Leona Dalrymple | ISBN: | 9781633553132 |
| Publisher: | Start Classics | Publication: | June 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Start Classics | Language: | English |
| Author: | Leona Dalrymple |
| ISBN: | 9781633553132 |
| Publisher: | Start Classics |
| Publication: | June 13, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Start Classics |
| Language: | English |
His name was Jimsy and he took it for granted that you liked him. That made things difficult from the very start-that and the fact that he arrived in the village two days before Christmas strung to such a holiday pitch of expectation that, if you were a respectable, bewhiskered first citizen like Jimsy's host, you felt the cut-and-dried dignity of a season which unflinching thrift had taught you to pare of all its glittering non-essentials, threatened by his bubbling air of faith in something wonderful to happen.
His name was Jimsy and he took it for granted that you liked him. That made things difficult from the very start-that and the fact that he arrived in the village two days before Christmas strung to such a holiday pitch of expectation that, if you were a respectable, bewhiskered first citizen like Jimsy's host, you felt the cut-and-dried dignity of a season which unflinching thrift had taught you to pare of all its glittering non-essentials, threatened by his bubbling air of faith in something wonderful to happen.
