Edgar Jepson

Name: Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I
Author: Edgar Jepson

Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

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“Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I”, published in 1913, is a work by Edgar Jepson. It explores elements such as Garthoyle Gardens, uncle and tenants.

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ But—Garthoyle Gardens are a gilded pill.”
“I should like to have the swallowing of it,” said Jack, and he smacked his lips. “But what do you mean?”
“I mean that Garthoyle Gardens mean the strenuous life. They are left to me on the condition that I am my own house agent, that I run them myself. I've got to interview proposed tenants, examine their standing, their references, and their leases; I've got to see to all matters connected with the upkeep of the Gardens, estimates, and contracts for repairs. I've got to run those Gardens ever so much more than my uncle did himself.” ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ I've always been worrying you to stop leading your idle, rackety life, and use those brains of yours.”
“And you call yourself my friend!” I said reproachfully
“Well, you have brains, you know; all vertebrates have brains. What's happened?”
“I've become the owner of Garthoyle Gardens.”
“Well, but—but that only means you've thirty thousand a year to spend on racketing about instead of five,” said Jack, with a perplexed air.
“No; it means that I shall have no time to racket about. You didn't know my Uncle Algernon. Garthoyle Gardens were his passion; they were almost his monomania. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ Has there been an earthquake in the night?”
“No, your lordship. But there's some young persons waiting to see your lordship,” said Mowart.
“That's all right. I advertised for them,” I said.
“There's a good many young persons, your lordship,” said Mowart, in a shaky voice.
I went to the window, and my eyes and mouth opened wide as I gazed down on a surging, seething sea of wide-spreading hats. Among them rose scores of policemen's helmets, and a column of police was marching into the triangle through its apex. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ It is hardly fair that one should know so much about one's tenants.
It was quite plain to me that to be a real house agent I must have an office; and it was also quite plain that it must be in the house, so that I could always step into it without having to make a tiresome journey. I decided that I would not use the library, as my uncle had done, but that I would fit up a pleasant room on the ground floor, looking out on the garden at the back of the house, as a complete office, with desks and pigeonholes and a safe. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ Mine is an untrammeled spirit. And there is also terrible danger attached to th bequest. My uncle's last words in the document containing these conditions were that he was sure I should grow as fond of the Gardens as he was himself. That would be awful. I might grow to talk of nothing else, choke off my friends one by one by boring them about the Gardens, and bring myself to an old age of lonely desolation. Think on it.”
“I can't,” said Jack.
“Well, you see how things are. I'm one of the workers of the world—in for the strenuous life of the house agent. Now, what I want is a right-hand man. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ I got my first experience of what a hard life a house agent's is.
I invited applicants for the post to call at ten. At nine, when I got up, I heard a good deal of noise out in the Gardens, and I observed that Mowart, my man, was pale and scared. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter I (1913)

“ I settled down to prepare for it gloomily. moved from Mount Street to my uncle's house in Garthoyle Gardens, Number Eighteen.
As I have said, the Gardens are a triangle of twenty-one houses, seven houses on either side, and seven at the base. They look out on a triangular garden in the middle, of which all the occupants of the houses have the use. Number Eighteen is in the center of the base of the triangle; and it affords a good view of the whole of it. ”

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