Watson's Choice
“Pray, sir, in what?
In the delaying death.’ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – Measure for Measure * IT DID NOT take Laura long to change into a suit and some comfortable shoes. She was prepared to enter the competition with zest, not for the sake of the prize, which, in the face of what she supposed would be the concentrated opposition of the tutor Grimston and the dark-horse nature of the rest of the field, she hardly expected to gain, but because it was a unique opportunity to explore most of the house.
...Exploring old houses was a hobby of hers, and Sir Bohun’s home, although not the exciting affair it might have been, in her eyes, if it had been built a hundred and fifty years earlier, nevertheless offered, in the way of staircases, fireplaces, carved overmantels, and cupboard doors, much that was both interesting and delightful. It belonged to the late seventeenth century, a period of which she knew a considerable amount so far as its domestic architecture was concerned.
The spectacle of a large stuffed goose, a white one with a barred tail, recalled her to the contemplation of the paper and pencil in her hand.MoreLess
In the delaying death.’ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – Measure for Measure * IT DID NOT take Laura long to change into a suit and some comfortable shoes. She was prepared to enter the competition with zest, not for the sake of the prize, which, in the face of what she supposed would be the concentrated opposition of the tutor Grimston and the dark-horse nature of the rest of the field, she hardly expected to gain, but because it was a unique opportunity to explore most of the house.
...Exploring old houses was a hobby of hers, and Sir Bohun’s home, although not the exciting affair it might have been, in her eyes, if it had been built a hundred and fifty years earlier, nevertheless offered, in the way of staircases, fireplaces, carved overmantels, and cupboard doors, much that was both interesting and delightful. It belonged to the late seventeenth century, a period of which she knew a considerable amount so far as its domestic architecture was concerned.
The spectacle of a large stuffed goose, a white one with a barred tail, recalled her to the contemplation of the paper and pencil in her hand.MoreLess
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