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Paperback: 420 pages
Publisher: Boucher Press March 15, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1406706620
ISBN-13: 978-1406706628
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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FOUR GENERATIONS by Naomi Jacob NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1934 Copyright, 1934, by NAOMI JACOB All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Set up and elcctrotyped. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NORWOOD PRESS LINOTYPE, INC. NORWOOD, MASS., U. S. A. To LAURA Mn. Walter Ashmore With my love MICKY. BOOK ONE CHAPTER ONE VIVA wasnt attending to the service. She never felt that weddings in fashionable churches were really services at all they were necessary, and they gave one an opportunity of seeing ones friends en masse. In this case it enabled her to review the whole of her family and Emmanuels as well. She glanced at her husband, then her eyes travelled up to the altar where Julian stood, then to the broad back of Bill Gollantz who was standing at the other end of the pew in front of her. You none of you ever look frightfully at home in an English church, she had once said to Bill after one of the Heriot weddings. Perhaps because we arent, Bill said. Perhaps the faith of our fathers is too strong for us. Angela says that when she married the Guvnor, he gave a most ghastly exhibition of funk. She had shrugged her shoulders. Thats rubbish, Bill, and you know it. None of you have ever been inside a synagogue in your lives. You all went to English schools and you all look absolutely English. Thats a pose, that stressing e Here have we no abiding city. The grin had faded from Bills face as he answered Is it I wonder. I dont know. Somehow I believe that it crops up once in a way, and all the Heriots and Wilmots and the rest of em count for nothing. Praps not so much 3 4 FOUR GENERATIONS in me, Im all Heriot, but in Julian and certainly in Emmanuel. She had felt a queer annoyance, almost a sense of dis tress, and had repeated that he talked nonsense, and that it was only a faint echo of the romanticism which had been so strong in old Emmanuel. Youre all romantics at heart, she said, and its so damned out of date Looking at Julian now, she had to admit that he looked modern enough and self-controlled and all the other things which she felt romantics ought not to look. He stood there, very slim, very straight, far too handsome, his face expressionless, the light catching his fair hair. The sight of him irritated Viva a little. She thought Hes far too good-looking, too successful, too everything. Its only two no, three years ago since he allowed Emmanuel to shoulder his nasty little sins and cut himself off from us all for a year Now, its all for gotten, and apparently forgiven. Hes making a success in the Party, hes marrying a frightfully rich wife I dont wonder shes glad to change a name like Van der Hoyt and I suppose one day hell be Prime Minister I believe that he is different from Emmanuel and Bill. Hes a sort of intellectual pirate, is Julian. Hell make anyone walk the plank and yet I like him. Hes stimulating. The organ began to play, and she realized that the service was over, and that Julian and his little American wife were turning away from the altar. Emmanuel leant down and said that he didnt think they wanted to go and join them in the vestry, and Viva shook her head. She cer tainly didnt want to. She remembered at her own wed FOUR GENERATIONS 5 ding it had been rather fun, but she had played lead that day. She didnt want particularly to play second fiddle to Mrs. Julian Gollantz. Emmanuel said I suppose we can sit down now, can we Why not Tired, Emmanuel A little . . . Then very quickly, Not really, no, Im not really tired. This place is so hot, isnt it She looked at him as he sat at her side, and thought that he did look tired, his shoulders stooped a little, and once or twice he blinked his eyes as if they felt heavy. Max leaves too much to him, she thought
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by Naomi Jacob
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