Delphi Works Of Ford Madox Ford (Illustrated) - Plot & Excerpts
the boy said, “is ‘Bransdon,’ and we both have the Celtic temperament. That is what you might expect, for Ophelia’s father is the great Mr Bransdon and mine is his chief disciple, Mr Gubb. We have neither of us tasted flesh meat or alcohol in our lives and we are compiling a book called ‘Health Resides in Sandals.’” Mr Luscombe said: “Well, now!” Mr Gubb’s son fetched the bicycles from outside the wall. From the handle-bar of each of them depended a net bag containing a very sodden loaf of bread and a paper bag so melted that raisins dripped from them here and there as the bicycles shook. But the showers of talk continued undamped, as if they were veritable bursts of sunshine beneath the liquid downfall. Nevertheless, when they were about half-way up the carriage drive the great Mr Bransdon’s daughter exclaimed: “Ugh!” and wriggled her shoulders inside her ill-fitting clothes. “The rain has gone through! It’s trickling down my spine!” She had interrupted a dissertation of her husband who was explaining that though both Mr Bransdon and Mr Gubb objected to bicycling it was never their way to employ a blind subservience towards their distinguished parents.
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