Cornish Trilogy Omnibus by Robertson Davies

Author:Robertson Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO THINK of Picasso, or of anything but immediate concerns, after Frank had read the letter which was sent on from Corpus and reached him two days before he was to return to England.

Dear Frank:

The news is that I am well and truly up the spout. Two months gone. I had meant to keep this jolly secret from the parents until you were back in England, but that hasn't been possible. Not that I am all bagged out, and stumbling about in my bare feet like Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but some determined chucking up in the a.m. gave the show away. So there have been great family conferences, and after Daddy had had his prolonged and mournful say, and Mum had wept, and question was: what to do? My suggestion that I go to London and have the little intruder given a what-for by a really competent doctor was shouted down. Daddy is a churchwarden and takes it greatly to heart. What they want is a wedding. Keep your hair on. They do not in the least regard you as an old black ram who has tupped their white ewe. (Shakes.) Indeed there were one or two nasty hints that they thought their white ewe might have been a not-unwilling collaborator. No, they think you a highly desirable parti, as they used to say in Mum's day. When I said that I didn't know if you would want to marry me they said that blood was thicker than water (messier, too) and we were cousins (which in other circs they might well have thought an objection), and there was a lot more to be said for it than just saving face. The Glassons, as you will have divined, have an awful lot of face and precious little else. So—what about it? Don't waste time. Think hard and let me know. If my plan is to be taken, it must be done pretty soon.

Love, and all that that implies,

Ismay

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