Carnival
Compton MacKenzie, "Carnival"
Publisher: Project Gutenberg | 2010-06-28 | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 370 pages | 1.2 MB
Publisher: Project Gutenberg | 2010-06-28 | ISBN: N/A | PDF | 370 pages | 1.2 MB
Perhaps it was the pride of chemical ancestry that sustained Miss Frances Horner through the indelicacy of the last announcement. But old maids' flesh was weak, and the carmine suffusing her waxen cheeks drove the eldest sister into an attempt to cover her confusion by adding that she, for one, was glad in these days of neglected duties to see a mother nursing her own child.
"We feel," she went on, "that the arrival of a little girl shows very clearly that the Almighty intended us to adopt her. Had it–had she proved to be a boy, we should have made no suggestions about her, except, perhaps, that her name should be Frederick after our father, the chemist."