A Wedding On the Banks (2014)
“As it is, I have to steer with one hand.”
—Monique Tessier, to the startled clerk at Betty’s Grocery Junior awakened to his first Mattagash morning in almost a decade. He checked his watch through squinted eyes and discovered it was only nine thirty. Saturday. There was plenty of time to lounge in bed now that Marvin Sr. wasn’t peering out of the funeral home like some kind of watchman, waiting to see if his son would get to the office on time. Junior had even thought of launching into his ...own business, but he never had the chutzpah, or the moolah, to do so. Now things were looking brighter. The evening before the Ivys set out for Mattagash, Marvin had beckoned Junior inside his leathery office and there had looked his son in the eye.
“I’ll put it to you this way,” Marvin told his son. “You see to it that our old secretary stays gone, and you’ve got your own business in Watertown, Maine.”
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—Monique Tessier, to the startled clerk at Betty’s Grocery Junior awakened to his first Mattagash morning in almost a decade. He checked his watch through squinted eyes and discovered it was only nine thirty. Saturday. There was plenty of time to lounge in bed now that Marvin Sr. wasn’t peering out of the funeral home like some kind of watchman, waiting to see if his son would get to the office on time. Junior had even thought of launching into his ...own business, but he never had the chutzpah, or the moolah, to do so. Now things were looking brighter. The evening before the Ivys set out for Mattagash, Marvin had beckoned Junior inside his leathery office and there had looked his son in the eye.
“I’ll put it to you this way,” Marvin told his son. “You see to it that our old secretary stays gone, and you’ve got your own business in Watertown, Maine.”
“Watertown?”MoreLess
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