Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873. Excerpt: ... ginning of the other. As for the trash and trumpery that go to furnish the stalls, there can never be much difficulty about accumulating that. To a large portion of the maidens of England, collecting for a fancyfair is a species of mild excitement, and the occasion of much exaltation and exaggeration. They narrate wondrous fables of what their fingers have accomplished, and disparage each other's work with charming unanimity. Some backsliders among them, I know, buy, and fraudulently send the goods so acquired as the result of their labours. But then we all know the whole thing is a fraud from beginning to end, so what can it matter? In my natural indolence I cannot help siding with these ingenious sinners, and hath not Mr. Mortimer Collins told us that "to laze" is to live long? It will, of course, be surmised that if Aldringham was to have a fancy-fair, it would be incumbent that Mr. Holbourne should be one of its managers. As the affair verged upon fructification, the banker as usual softly insinuated that he was the original promoter of the scheme. "Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire," saith the French poet, and your social impostor is never without his worshippers. There was a considerable section of the town that quite took the worthy banker at his own valuation, and they, of course, were in ecstasies at the idea. His daughter and niece were enthusiastic on the subject. The managing, or manoeuvring for the management of anything, had ever keen attraction for Marion. Here she was on the ladies committee, and in her quiet, smooth way was probably the very goddess of discord in that assembly. She assented to every proposition, and was apparently the quietest, least obtrusive lady amongst them. But if Miss Langworthy went the length of gent...
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