Brunswick Gardens (2010)
“He did not expect to hear anything helpful, but it was a duty which must not be overlooked. It was another sharp early spring day, and in spite of the unpleasantness of his task, he walked with a lift in his step. So far he had seen nothing on the billboards, and the newspaper headlines were largely to do with Cecil Rhodes’s African politics, domestic economics and the perennial Irish Problem.
He went up the steps two at a time and along the corridors almost as if he were unaware of the carboli...c and formaldehyde odor. He knocked on the examiner’s office door and went in. It was a small room, crowded with books on shelves, on the floor, and in piles on the desk.
“Good morning, Dr. Marshall,” he said cheerfully. “Anything for me?”
Marshall, a small, spare man with a graying beard, looked up from the paper he was writing on, the quill poised in his hand.
“Aye, I have, and ye’ll not like it,” he said with a smile of friendliness but no pleasure. “There are times I think my job is no’ fit even for a man on a fine sunny day.MoreLess
He went up the steps two at a time and along the corridors almost as if he were unaware of the carboli...c and formaldehyde odor. He knocked on the examiner’s office door and went in. It was a small room, crowded with books on shelves, on the floor, and in piles on the desk.
“Good morning, Dr. Marshall,” he said cheerfully. “Anything for me?”
Marshall, a small, spare man with a graying beard, looked up from the paper he was writing on, the quill poised in his hand.
“Aye, I have, and ye’ll not like it,” he said with a smile of friendliness but no pleasure. “There are times I think my job is no’ fit even for a man on a fine sunny day.MoreLess
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