The Brandons: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) by Angela Thirkell

Author:Angela Thirkell [Thirkell, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781405528399
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2014-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

‘Well, I am sorry, mum,’ said Cook, who had never seen Miss Brandon and only heard of her as a paragon of bad temper. ‘The poor old lady. That’s what my tea-leaves meant last night. You remember, Nurse, when you was in the kitchen about Rose’s machine, I said there was a funeral in my cup.’

Nurse said she well remembered, and how it had given her quite a funny feeling, for which she could not at the moment account, but which in the light of subsequent events was all too clear, and that they did say the tea-leaves never lied. But there she was standing chattering, she exclaimed, suddenly taking on the bright air of the professional nurse, when what madam needed was a glass of sherry.

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