Love and Twenty
by John Strange Winter (9781150224799)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: J. Long Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LITTLE BLUE BOWL Chapter I Two lovers were parting. They had been lovers always. Ever since the Greencrofts had lived at Percy Villa, Tom Greencroft had been known to be the little sweetheart of Marjorie Dene, who lived with the rest of her family in the Charrington Road. The Greencrofts and the Denes might aptly have been described as being in Bridgeway, but not of Bridgeway. There is always in every semi-country place -- I may say in every small place -- a local set which is sandwiched in between the county, or what takes the place of the county, and that class of people who are sometimes sneeringly called " middle-class," and who do not visit with persons of independent means, or those who follow professions rather than trade. And there is always another little set, which in the social sandwich may be likened to the butter which is sparingly spread upon the bit of bread which encases the savoury piece of meat in the middle. It is a set which is no set, which has few friends, lives a simple unostentatious life, and is not in Society or out of Society. And of this calibre were the Greencrofts and the Denes. They had no knowledge of the greatMrs Chamberlain; they knew nothing of the feud, so strangely begun and ended, between that great lady and the Masters family at Deepdene. Mrs Stanni- forth, the rector's wife, to them was only a gracious person whom they had met for a moment on one or two semi-public occasions -- they were in Bridgeway, but not of Bridgeway; I can express it no better. Well, from the early days when Tom Greencroft had been Marjorie Dene's little...

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