Parents and Children by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Author:Ivy Compton-Burnett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

quoted Faith, with rising feeling.

‘Faith does have points in common with Heaven,’ said Hope.

‘Not a cage,’ said Nevill. ‘A nice, glass case.’

‘We needn’t kill a robin,’ said Honor. ‘Father kills other birds.’

‘All hang down,’ said Nevill. ‘Poor birds!’

‘Yes, that is what I mean,’ said Faith. ‘Poor birds!’

Nevill beat his hands together and uttered the sounds he made when chasing the fowls.

‘The bird couldn’t run, if it were stuffed and dead,’ said Gavin.

‘It sings,’ said Nevill. ‘Father’s bird sings in its case.’

‘I don’t think it can do that,’ said Faith.

‘Tweet, tweet,’ said Nevill, in disproof of this, assuming a listening air.

‘I don’t think they are very cruel to anything,’ said Eleanor.

‘Well, only to Faith,’ said Hope: ‘I think they are to her. It is three against one.’

‘I do not feel that at all,’ said Faith.

‘We only don’t think the same as she does,’ said Honor;

‘We can’t all think alike, can we?’ said Faith. ‘But I hope we shall agree about this some day.’

‘Some day he will shoot a little bird for you,’ promised Nevill, in vague amendment, as Faith bent to bid him good-bye.

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