The Oracles (2011)
“Nobody had come and the money which Elizabeth had left was spent, squandered, during the first week, upon all kinds of unusual delicacies.
After this week of feasting came a few days of fast. Meals grew scantier and less satisfying. They began to look out, with sharpened anxiety, for their promised deliverer, and even left the door open when they went to bed, in case the person should arrive during the night. But nobody ever came near them except Lobster Charlie, from whom they could no lon...ger afford to buy, and a supercilious school-child with a paper parcel from Miss Byrne. This contained a horrid little hat and a message that Serafina was in future to wear it at Mass. Serafina flung it away in disgust, but, as hopes of deliverance sank, she took to wearing it. She did not quite believe Miss Byrne’s statement that Our Lady had sent it, but she felt that she could not afford to offend anybody.
On Sunday morning, having breakfasted on milkless tea and stale bread scraped with anchovy paste, they had reached the end of their resources.MoreLess
After this week of feasting came a few days of fast. Meals grew scantier and less satisfying. They began to look out, with sharpened anxiety, for their promised deliverer, and even left the door open when they went to bed, in case the person should arrive during the night. But nobody ever came near them except Lobster Charlie, from whom they could no lon...ger afford to buy, and a supercilious school-child with a paper parcel from Miss Byrne. This contained a horrid little hat and a message that Serafina was in future to wear it at Mass. Serafina flung it away in disgust, but, as hopes of deliverance sank, she took to wearing it. She did not quite believe Miss Byrne’s statement that Our Lady had sent it, but she felt that she could not afford to offend anybody.
On Sunday morning, having breakfasted on milkless tea and stale bread scraped with anchovy paste, they had reached the end of their resources.MoreLess
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