Half Portions Tapa dura - 2009
de Edna Ferber
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OLD LADY HANDLE OLD lady Mandle was a queen. Her demesne, undisputed, was a six-room flat on South Park Avenue, Chicago. Her faithful servitress was Anna, an ancient person of Polish nativity, bad teeth, and a cunning hand at cookery. Not so cunning, however, but that old lady Mandle's was more artful still in such matters as meat-soups, broad noodles, fish with egg sauce, and the like. As ladies-in-waiting, flattering yet jealous, admiring though resentful, she had Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Brunswick, and Mrs. Wormser, themselves old ladies and erstwhile queens, now deposed. And the crown jewel in old lady Man- dle's diadem was my. son Hugo, i Ki t, . a Mrs. Mandle was not only a queen but a spoiled old lady. And not only a spoiled old lady but a confessedly spoiled old lady. Bridling and wagging her white head she admitted her pampered state. It was less an admission than a boast. JEJej; son Hugo had spoiled her. This, too, she acknowledged. " My son Hugo spoils me," she would say, and there was no proper humbleness in her voice. Though he was her only son she neverspoke of him merely as "Hugo," or "My son," but always as "My son Hugo." She rolled the three words on her tongue as though they were delicious morsels from which she would extract all possible savour and sweetness. And when she did this you could almost hear the click of the stiffening spines of Mrs. Lamb, Mrs. Brunswick, and Mrs. Wormser. For they envied her her son Hugo, and resented him as only three old ladies could who were living, tolerated and dependent, with their married sons and their sons' wives. Any pleasant summer afternoon at four o'clock you might have seen Mrs. Mandle holding court. The four old women sat, a decent black silk row, on a shady bench in Washington Park (near the refectory and afternoon cof...
Detalles
- Título Half Portions
- Autor Edna Ferber
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 322
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)
- Fecha de publicación 2009-10
- ISBN 9781115417754 / 1115417754
- Peso 1.71 libras (0.78 kg)
- Dimensiones 10 x 7 x 0.75 pulgadas (25.40 x 17.78 x 1.91 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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