[MaC] The Lift is Fixed!
Nowsounds
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Thu Dec 23 08:34:22 EST 2004
> With the aid of Mr Beaman, who showed a great facility for the skills, and
> the appearance of some unexpectedly ingenious tools from the Group
> Captain, Hodges was soon able to fix the lift, so that Hodges scrambled
> clear, the lift was restarted, and Mrs Evans and Miss Mauberley were
> triumphantly released. Then, accompanied by Tabitha Rosen who had paused
> to watch, the whole group were able to make a triumph entrance to the
> cocktail party, quite eclipsing the arrival of Nola Diamond, who was
> already on her second martini.
At the sight of them, Arabella excused herself from her little group and
came to greet them. "My dear," she said to Evangeline Evans. "Was it very
disconcerting? I was just talking to your nephew -- what a fine young man."
She turned with an equally admiring smile to Marion Mauberley. "Miss
Mauberly... I trust we'll see some such incident, properly exaggerated, in a
future work?"
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