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Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Great book, The Collector pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone. Add a review Your Rating: Your Comment:. Mantissa by John Fowles. Every week I did the same five-bob perm. Old Tom and Crutchley, who were in Rates with me, and some of the girls clubbed together and did a big one and they were always going at me to join in, but I stayed the lone wolf.
I never liked old Tom or Crutchley. Old Tom is slimy, always going on about local government and buttering up to Mr. Williams, the Borough Treasurer. I always hated vulgar women, especially girls. So I did my own entry, like I said. I rang up Mr. Williams as soon as the pools people confirmed the Tuesday that all was well. Some of them at Town Hall lose all sense of proportion.
I did what the pools people suggested, moved straight up to London with Aunt Annie and Mabel till the fuss died down. You could see they thought I was mean. The only fly in the ointment was Miranda. She was at home at the time of winning, on holidays from her art school, and I saw her only the Saturday morning of the great day. There were even times I thought I would forget her. If you are on the grab and immoral like most nowadays, I suppose you can have a good time with a lot of money when it comes to you.
But I may say I have never been like that, I was never once punished at school. Aunt Annie is a Nonconformist, she never forced me to go to chapel or such like, but I was brought up in the atmosphere, though Uncle Dick used to go to the pub on the q. Aunt Annie let me smoke cigarettes after a lot of rows when I came out of the army, but she never liked it.
Even with all that money, she had to keep on saying spending it was against her principles. What this is all leading to is I got a bit drunk once or twice when I was in the Pay Corps, especially in Germany, but I never had anything to do with women.
I never thought about women much before Miranda. They still treated me behind the scenes for what I was—a clerk.
It was no good throwing money around. As soon as we spoke or did something we gave the game away. Lost in Shadows by CJ Lyons. Castles Made of Sand by Gwyneth Jones. Starbreak by Phoebe North. Taking It by Michael Cadnum.
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