4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen. |
0:19.0 | Green Hockey by Elizabeth Bowen. |
0:24.6 | Mr. Rankstock entered the room with a dragging tread. |
0:27.6 | Nobody looked up or took any notice. |
0:31.0 | With a muted groan, he dropped into an armchair, |
0:33.0 | out of which he shot with a sharp yelp. |
0:36.8 | He searched the seat of the chair and extracted something. |
0:41.4 | "'Your Holly, I think, Miss Bates,' he said, holding it out to her. |
0:45.7 | Miss Bates took a second or two to look up from her magazine. |
0:46.8 | "'What?' she said. |
0:49.4 | "'Oh, it must have fallen down from that picture. |
0:52.1 | Put it back, please. We haven't got very much. I regret, interposed Mr. Winterslow, |
0:55.0 | that we haven't had any. It makes scratchy noises against the walls. It's seasonable, |
1:01.4 | said Miss Bates firmly. You didn't do this to us last Christmas. Last Christmas, she said, |
1:07.6 | I had Christmas leave this year. there seems to be none with berries, |
1:11.6 | the birds have eaten them. If there were not a draft, the leaves wouldn't scratch the walls. |
1:16.8 | I can't control the forces of nature, can I? How should I know, said Mr. Rankstock lighting his |
1:22.6 | pipe? These three by now felt that like Chevalier and his old Dutch, they'd been together for 40 years, and to them it did seem a year too much. |
1:33.7 | Actually, their confinement dated from 1940. |
1:37.2 | They were experts in what the censor would not permit me to say. |
1:41.2 | They were accounted for by their friends in London as being somewhere off in the |
1:46.2 | country. Nobody knows where, doing something frightfully hush-hush. Nobody knows what. That is, they were |
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