The House At World's End
“They fought as much as any family, and screamed and punched and sometimes bit, and told Charlie, ‘Kill her! Attack!’ while he smiled and thumped his tail and rolled his mild eyes, but when there was a good idea about, they all grabbed it together.
After school, they met in the playground among the gorgonzola statues, and went out by bus to the depressing grey suburb where Uncle Rudolf had his plumbing factory. It was no use trying to talk to him at home, with Valentina flouncing about in clothe...s made of dead animals and talking about herself.
The factory was an old-fashioned building of dirty yellow brick, with spiked iron railings all round, like a prison. Over the great studded door, Uncle Rudolf had put a royal emblem of a huge crown and crossed water pipes, with a Latin motto: ‘Princeps Plumbarium.’ The Prince of Plumbers.
Tom and Carrie and Em and Michael had been there before when Uncle Rudolf had given them a tour of the workshops where pipes were elbowed into strange angles, and baths beaten into shape with hollow clangs.MoreLess
After school, they met in the playground among the gorgonzola statues, and went out by bus to the depressing grey suburb where Uncle Rudolf had his plumbing factory. It was no use trying to talk to him at home, with Valentina flouncing about in clothe...s made of dead animals and talking about herself.
The factory was an old-fashioned building of dirty yellow brick, with spiked iron railings all round, like a prison. Over the great studded door, Uncle Rudolf had put a royal emblem of a huge crown and crossed water pipes, with a Latin motto: ‘Princeps Plumbarium.’ The Prince of Plumbers.
Tom and Carrie and Em and Michael had been there before when Uncle Rudolf had given them a tour of the workshops where pipes were elbowed into strange angles, and baths beaten into shape with hollow clangs.MoreLess
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