G. A. Birmingham, Minnie's Bishop and Other Stories… (1915)
“ You and she would both have helped me if I had, but I didn't cadge. I lied right on to the bitter end. And I don't ask her to see me. All I want is to see her. I'll clear out to-morrow and get far enough off for her not to hear about it when I chuck it altogether. ”
G. A. Birmingham, Minnie's Bishop and Other Stories… (1915)
“ Gray inclined to the negro as more picturesque. It took them an hour to complete their survey of Leonard's estate and their reckoning of Leonard's happiness. Then they parted with the usual banal Christmas greeting on the vicar's lips and a gentle reply from Mrs. Gray. "When God has given me a son like Leonard," she said; "I should be an ungrateful woman if my Christmas were not happy." ”
