The Matador of the Five Towns: Nonsuch Classics - Couverture souple

Bob, she said, factitiously calm. You dont know what Ive just remembered! Well? said he. It sonly grandmas birthday to-day! My friend Robert Brindley, the architect, struck the table with a violent fist, making his little boys blink, and then he said quietly: TA deuce! I gathered that grandmammas birthday had been forgotten and that it was not a festival that could be neglected with impunity. Both Mr and Mrs Brindley had evidently a humorous appreciation of crises, contretemps, and those collisions of circumstances which are usually called junctures for short. I could have imagined either of them saying to the other: Here sa funny thing! The house is on fire! And then yielding to laughter as they ran for buckets. Mrs Brindley, in particular, laughed now; she gazed at the table-cloth and laughed almost silently to herself; though it appeared that their joint forgetfulness might result in temporary estrangement from a venerable ancestor who was also, birthdays being duly observed, a continual fount of rich presents in specie.
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Arnold Bennett was a British author and journalist. Bennett was a prolific writer in many genres. Some of Bennett's most famous works include the self-help book How to Live on 24 Hours a Day and novels such as The Old Wives' Tale, and Anna of the Five Towns. The Matador of the Five Towns is a collection of short stories centering around the fictional towns based off the Potteries district where Bennett was born.