Goody Hall by Natalie Babbitt

Author:Natalie Babbitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 1971-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Hercules Feltwright took out his nose putty and squeezed it. Outside, the moon blinked through drifting shreds of cloud, and the lilac bush scratched against his window as a stiff night breeze circled the beautiful house. Hercules pressed the putty over his nose and was annoyed to see that his hands were shaking a little. “After all, though,” he thought defensively, “it isn’t exactly what I expected in the line of tutoring duty.” The nose was in place at last, as much like the first one as he could manage, and he went to the wardrobe and swung open its double doors. “Acting was simpler,” he observed to himself as he took out the vest and cloak and put them on. “It’s much easier to talk about doing things than it is to really do them. Why, I’ve been through all kinds of horrors on stage, without a quiver. For instance, that terrible murder, all pretend, of course, and then I come out and I say:

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