Excerpt from The House of Rimmon This sort of dreaming is not so unusual among boys as to impress the average parent greatly; nevertheless, Mrs. Harrod - who represented the ab solute average - professed an alarmed admiration verging on panic, over Cleveland's tendencies. To be sure, she was forever falling into a state of excite ment about the gifts or achievements of some mem ber of the family. Greta had such a turn for music! You positively could not keep the child away from the player; she spent all her pocket-money ...
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Excerpt from The House of Rimmon This sort of dreaming is not so unusual among boys as to impress the average parent greatly; nevertheless, Mrs. Harrod - who represented the ab solute average - professed an alarmed admiration verging on panic, over Cleveland's tendencies. To be sure, she was forever falling into a state of excite ment about the gifts or achievements of some mem ber of the family. Greta had such a turn for music! You positively could not keep the child away from the player; she spent all her pocket-money buying new rolls for it; and when a musical show came along, like The Merry Widow for instance, or that other new one, The Chinese Honeymoon, why, her father just simply had to take her, that was all! Well, Melvin had a marvellous ear him self, Greta came by hers rightly. Or, she believed that Billy was a real mechanical genius! You ought to see him take his bicycle to pieces - entirely to pieces, mind you l - and clean it and put it together again as good as new; same way with his camera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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