Sally on the Rocks
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102
1915
English
- The new bank manager is a bachelor, and simply rolling
- I am absolutely on the rocks, Lovey
- Isn't there a man called Bingley?
- Gracious, what a husband for 'Mrs Alfred Bingley!'
- You needn't be afraid your nose will ever be put out of joint
- You can put on your boots without a chair
- I hope I don't disturb your rest?
- Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.
- I am sick of the war
- Stop! ..Oh you little idiot.
- What on earth are you doing here?
- Jimmy, is that the girl you told me about?
- I might have known she would fail me.
- What sort of an Italian tour?
- Won't you give me another chance?
- You are hateful! I wish I hadn't saved you.
- Here's luck to my husband's wife
- I am afraid we are lost, my very dear Miss Sally
- But perhaps bank-managers don't curl?
- Oh, Mr Bingley. what a mercy you are safe!
- I think he's set on not getting better - dying belike, Miss Sally
- Will you stay with me to the end?
- Parson's Sally is to marry Mr Bingley of the bank
- How fond you are of the Mountain!
- After all, what could Mother really know? She wasn't a man
- I am lower than the beasts that perish
- Sally? Sally!
- Then I also give you a week
- Just fancy if there was a divorce in Litte Crampton, Mr Bingley!
- I never guessed there were two of me
- Even the "Soft Job" has got to be paid for
- In the midst of death
- I did some hustle for a husband
Sally Lunton has led a bohemian lifestyle in Paris, but now at 31 she returns to Little Crampton disillusioned, no job, no money and no hopes for the future except a safe, if loveless, marriage.. Little Crampton has its complement of “typical” villagers – the pompous bank manager, the local gossip, the ageing parson – but this is spring 1915, and the young men are away fighting and dying in the Great War. Farms and businesses are struggling to exist, families are grieving and there are not many marriage prospects for a spirited, worldly young woman.
Sally's story is told with a mixture of wry humour, cynical observation and bitter anti-war sentiments that make this novel an interesting, emotional but never sentimental view of "English village life". (Summary by Anne Fletcher )
Sally's story is told with a mixture of wry humour, cynical observation and bitter anti-war sentiments that make this novel an interesting, emotional but never sentimental view of "English village life". (Summary by Anne Fletcher )
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