Barry Pain,
The Discovery of Nesting
(1923)
“ Boyes had a serious talk with Alice and with the father of Alice. For three years London dealers had been foaming at the mouth in their mad eagerness to acquire the treasures of “The Royal George,” and had been quietly told by the landlord that he wanted those treasures and did not want their money in the least. When a man does not want money, your only possible course is to offer him more of it. ”
Barry Pain,
The Discovery of Nesting
(1923)
“ Elwood still conversing, and returned to the inn for luncheon. He fared excellently and was waited upon by the landlord’s pretty daughter, who possessed the lost art of blushing. After lunch he inspected a picturesque old church of architectural interest and also that very creditable waterfall. And then he rode back to London. As a man he wished to keep Nesting to himself, admitting, perhaps, a few of his personal friends who might be worthy of it, and exacting from them pledges of secrecy. But Boyes was also a journalist, and the journalistic instinct was too strong for him. ”
Barry Pain,
The Discovery of Nesting
(1923)
“ And then Alice, the blushing daughter of the landlord, went into the pet lamb business. She also inquired the price of pale blue ribbon at Mrs. Elwood’s, and subsequently decided to get it by post from Schoolbridge’s. She equipped three little girls with three pet lambs, all led by a pale blue ribbon, and she arranged for the lambs to be properly washed every Saturday morning. When an American saw a pretty child in a sunbonnet and daisy-chain, leading a white lamb by a pale blue ribbon, money came into Nesting, and, as the landlord’s blushing daughter observed, Nesting could do with it. ”
