Famous Last Words
““Eat,” she said to her son. “You must.” And she handed him the plate, which he could only stare at and put in his lap because it seemed ungrateful to hand it back to her. And when he looked up, he saw that she was looking at him strangely, as from another time. It was perhaps the afternoon light that caused this effect and the gentle, silent rain that misted the windows.
And a veil of dust intruded between them, raised by his mother’s servants moving in a cortege behind a row of monstrous packi...ng crates being carried through the great saloon towards the double tiers of stairs beyond and his mother chewed her sandwich and watched and waited a very long time before she spoke to him again and, when she did, her eyes were misted. The King was quite alarmed…until she spoke. “I got the end of Mrs Moore’s mustard pot that time,”
she said and dabbed at her eyes with a double damask napkin hugely embroidered with the letter G. “Just as 1 seem to have got the end of the mustard pot,”MoreLess
And a veil of dust intruded between them, raised by his mother’s servants moving in a cortege behind a row of monstrous packi...ng crates being carried through the great saloon towards the double tiers of stairs beyond and his mother chewed her sandwich and watched and waited a very long time before she spoke to him again and, when she did, her eyes were misted. The King was quite alarmed…until she spoke. “I got the end of Mrs Moore’s mustard pot that time,”
she said and dabbed at her eyes with a double damask napkin hugely embroidered with the letter G. “Just as 1 seem to have got the end of the mustard pot,”MoreLess
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