Name: Flaming June
Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
ISBN: 978-1523435999

Flaming June

By Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey 18 Apr, 2019

Excerpt........Somewhere on the West coast of England, about a hundred miles from the metropolis, there stands a sleepy little town, which possesses no special activity nor beauty to justify its existence. People live in it for reasons of their own. The people who do not live in it wonder for what reasons, but attain no better solution of the mystery than the statement that the air is very fine. “We have such bracing air!” says the resident, as proudly as if that said air were his special invention and property. Certain West-country doctors affect Norton-on-Sea for patients in need of restful change, and their melancholy advent justifies the existence of the great hotel on the esplanade, and the row of bath-chairs at the corner. There are ten bath-chairs in all, and on sunny days ten crumpled-looking old ladies can generally be seen sitting inside their canopies, trundling slowly along the esplanade, accompanied by a paid companion, dressed in black and looking sorry for herself. Occasionally on Saturdays and Sundays a pretty daughter, or a tall son takes the companion’s place, but as sure as Monday arrives they disappear into space. One can imagine that one hears them bidding their farewells—“So glad to see you getting on so well, mother dear! I positively must rush back to town to attend to a hundred duties. It’s a comfort to feel that you are so well placed. Miss Biggs is a treasure, and this air is so bracing!...” Less

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