E. V. Lucas

Name: Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection) — The Anti-Burglars
Author: E. V. Lucas

Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

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“Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection) — The Anti-Burglars”, published in 1908, is a work by E. V. Lucas. It explores elements such as Verney, Thomas Barnes and almoner.

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ Mary asked. "That's why I want you to help. Of course, we can post most of the money, but we can't post a truck. If Thomas Barnes knew, he'd send it back directly."
"Well," said Mr. Verney, after thinking for some time, "there's only one way: we shall have to be anti-burglars."
"Anti-burglars!" cried Mary. "What's that?"
"Well, a burglar is some one who breaks into a house and takes things away; an anti-burglar is some one who breaks into a house and leaves things there. Just the opposite, you see." ”

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ But tell me more about Thomas Barnes."
"Thomas Barnes," said Mary, "lives in a cottage by the cross-roads all alone."
"What does he do?"
"He fetches things from the station for people; he carries the washing home from Mrs. Carter's; he runs errands—at least, he doesn't run them: people wish he would; he sometimes does a day's work in a garden. But he really must have a new barrow, and his illness took all his money away, because he wouldn't belong to a club. ”

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ You are as good an almoner as I could wish, and I hope that another chance of setting you to work will come. Put the thirteen pence that are over in a box labelled 'The Almoner's Fund.' Then take the enclosed postal order for a pound and get it cashed, and the next time you are in Westerfield buy Mr. Verney a box of cigarettes, but be sure to find out first what kind he likes. Also give Harry six shillings. I dare say he has broken his bicycle or wants some more films: at any rate, he will not say no. The rest is for yourself to buy something purely for yourself with. ”

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ Verney had stooped for the lantern, and as he rose the policeman—for he it was—seized him also.
"You'd better come along with me," the policeman said, "and make no trouble about it. The less trouble you make, the easier it'll be for you before the magistrates,"
WHILE MARY HELD THE LANTERN, HE WORKED AWAY AT THE FASTENINGS.
"But look here," Mr. Verney said, "you're making a mistake. We're not housebreaking."
The policeman laughed. "Now, that's a good 'un," he said. "Dark lantern, screw-driver, hammer, eleven o'clock at night, Thomas Barnes' shed—and you're not housebreaking! ”

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ An almoner is one who gives away money for another. I shall be interested in hearing how you get on.
"Your affectionate
"Uncle Herbert."
Inside the letter was a five-pound note.
Mary read the letter for the twentieth time, and for the twentieth time unfolded the crackling five-pound note—more money than she had ever seen before. She was thirteen.
"But what shall I do with it?" she asked. "So many people want things." ”

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ It was arranged that the barrow should be wrapped up in sacking and taken to Mr. Verney's, inside the waggon, and be delivered after dark.
"Why do you want it?" Mary asked him.
"That's a secret," he said; "you'll know later."
Mr. Flower also undertook to send three shillings' worth of netting to Mrs. Callow, asking her to do him the favour of trying it to see if it were a good strong kind.
Mary and Mr. Verney then walked on to Mr. Costall, the dentist, who was in Westerfield only on Thursdays between ten and four. ”

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E. V. Lucas, Anne's Terrible Good Nature (Collection… (1908)

“ She went through the list again, and brought it down to £5 0s. 10d. by knocking off one week of Tommy Pringle's seaside holiday and depriving the village room of its gramaphone.
"I suppose I must make up the tenpence myself," she said. ”

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