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...House of Alard, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth, Susan Spray. Even should Selina come to marrying a Sussex clergyman like Miss Kaye-Smith's husband, Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, she would not follow him to London. She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back to Sussex for keeps...
...which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But Selina and Moira have imaginative resources of which the envied farm girls do not dream. Out of their dolls and stuffed animals, which make up a kind of fairy conclave named "The Lodge," out of the hedgerow flowers, the old oast-houses, the picnics in Flatropers Wood there emerge, for Selina at least, glimpses of the ancient lyric dream of Albion. But for all that, the girls squabble like fury now & then, kick violently against their nurse's pricks. When the children get the notion that she wants to marry...
...Shingle-headed, thin, quiet, with deep-set eyes, she is serious-minded but human. Seven years ago she married Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, parson of the local parish. Five years later both were converted to Roman Catholicism; her husband gave up the ministry. They now live in a Sussex oast-house (hop-drying kiln). Other-books: Sussex Gorse, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, Joanna Godden Married, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth...
...site on Cozumel and there visit Xharel again as well as Chaemaltun near Ascension Pay. There the boat will get Mason and he and I will go from Lab Cruz to a place called Tabi, southeast of Lba Cruz, and to Saban and possibly to Kabia oast of Valladolid. Large mounds and temples are said to exist here. It seems perfectly safe so far as the Indians are concerned, and we plan to carry on work here...