The City of Beautiful Nonsense By E Temple Thurston
The City of Beautiful Nonsense By E Temple Thurston
Thurston, E. Temple (Ernest Temple), 1879-1933
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At last, he found himself wandering in the direction of Holborn. . In a side street off' that neighbourhood lived his little typewriter, who had promised to finish two short stories for him over Easter. She would be as glad of company as he. She 179 N 2 180 THE CITY OF BEAUTIFUL would willingly cease from pounding the symphony of the one monotonous note on those lifeless keys. They would talk together of wonderful works yet to be typed. He would strum on her hired piano. The minutes would slip ...by and she would get tea, would boil the kettle on that miniature gas-stove, situated in her bedroom, where he had often imagined her saying her prayers in the morning while a piece of bacon was frying in the pan by her side prayers, the Amen of which would be hastened and emphasized by the boiling over of the milk. Those are the prayers that reach Heaven. They are so human. And a burnt sacrifice of burnt milk accompanying them, they are consistent with all the ritual of the Old Testament. To the little typewriter's, then, he decided to go.
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