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"Average"(?) Cabell,
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This review is from: Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (Library Binding)
Cabell in a younger day presents the American manifestation of the geneology of Dom Manuel of Poicteme. A light, "quaint" period piece with only the slyest hint (or foreshadowing (?)) of the "supernatural" and characters that will become the creators of the legend.
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The title of the book is derived from a fairy tale in which the carvedfigure of an unusual looking man on a cupboard door fell in love with a pretty little china shepherdess who loved a little chimney-sweep china figure that stood beside her. The carved figure asked the figure of a Chinaman who could nod his head and claimed to be the grandfather of the shepherdess if he could marry her. When the "grandfather" nodded his head in consent, the couple tried to flee the area by going through the stove and up the chimney to get into the outside world. But once outside, the shepherdess found the outside world "too much," so the lovers returned to their places. When they returned, they found that the Chinaman had fallen to the floor and had broken into three pieces. The owners of the Chinaman had him repaired with rivets. However, the rivet in his neck kept him from nodding. The next time the carved man made his request to the Chinaman to marry the shepherdess, he no longer could give his consent, so the lovers remained together until they were broken into piece. The story was set in early 1900 Lichfield. Col. Rudolph
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At a very remote period, when editorials were mostly devoted to discussion as to whether the Democratic Convention (shortly to be held in Chicago) would or would not declare in favor of bi-metallism; when gold was a novel form of recreation in America, and people disputed how to pronounce its name, and pedestrians still turned to stare after an automobile; when, according to the fashion notes, "the godet skirts and huge sleeves of the present modes" were already doomed to extinction; when the baseball season had just begun, and some of our people were discussing the national game, and others the spectacular buring of the old Pennsylvania Railway depot at Thirty-third and Market Street in Philadelphia, and yet others the significance of General Fitzhugh Lee's recent appointment as consul-general to Habana:-at this remote time, Lichfielf talked of nothing except the Pendomer divorce case. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Rudolph Musgrave, Colonel Musgrave, John Charteris, Miss Stapylton, Roger Stapylton, Clarice Pendomer, Anne Charteris, Miss Agatha, Jack Charteris, Musgrave of Matocton, Miss Musgrave, Anne Willoughby, Lichfield Courier-Herald, Patricia Stapylton, Gerald Musgrave, Joe Parkinson, Musgraves of Matocton, Patricia Vartrey, Cousin Lucy Fentnor, George Pendomer, Lichfield Historical Association, Scott Musgrave, Felix Kennaston, Judge Allardyce, Patricia Musgrave New!
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At a very remote period, when editorials were mostly devoted to discussion as to whether the Democratic Convention (shortly to be held in Chicago) would or would not declare in favor of bi-metallism; when gold was a novel form of recreation in America, and people disputed how to pronounce its name, and pedestrians still turned to stare after an automobile; when, according to the fashion notes, "the godet skirts and huge sleeves of the present modes" were already doomed to extinction; when the baseball season had just begun, and some of our people were discussing the national game, and others the spectacular buring of the old Pennsylvania Railway depot at Thirty-third and Market Street in Philadelphia, and yet others the significance of General Fitzhugh Lee's recent appointment as consul-general to Habana:-at this remote time, Lichfielf talked of nothing except the Pendomer divorce case. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social triumph, purple eyes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rudolph Musgrave, Colonel Musgrave, John Charteris, Miss Stapylton, Roger Stapylton, Clarice Pendomer, Anne Charteris, Miss Agatha, Jack Charteris, Musgrave of Matocton, Miss Musgrave, Anne Willoughby, Lichfield Courier-Herald, Patricia Stapylton, Gerald Musgrave, Joe Parkinson, Musgraves of Matocton, Patricia Vartrey, Cousin Lucy Fentnor, George Pendomer, Lichfield Historical Association, Scott Musgrave, Felix Kennaston, Judge Allardyce, Patricia Musgrave New!
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