“Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast. This consisted of two quick large brandies, followed by several slower ones. By noon breakfast had become lunch and by two… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“This fusion of wood and water is an entrancing thing. Without the wood the stream would be nothing: a mere thin watercourse winding through… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“If I shut my eyes it returns: the evocation of a whole wood, a whole world of wood-darkness and flowers and birds and late… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“The major was very interested in the mountains, and we in turn were very interested in the major, a spare spruce man of nearly… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“It is one of the oddest and sometimes one of the most charming characteristics of English weather that at times one season borrows complete… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“Every morning Mrs Eglantine sat at the round bamboo bar of the New Pacific Hotel and drank her breakfast. This consisted of two quick… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“And here, it seems to me, is much of the secret of the charm of woods in England. A wood should never be vast.… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“But I drew the line, one evening, at Jerry O'Keefe's, the fish-shop where people crammed in late for hot plates of peas and chips… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“A wood at night, or even more at twilight, can be a strange place. Fear begins to come more quickly in a wood, with… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“The cookery books will give you a thousand finicky devices, mushrooms in this, mushrooms in that, but there is only one way—to fry them,… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“Blowsily, frowsily, comfortably, toothlessly, Mrs Candleton was sleeping away the afternoon in her hair-curlers and her pinnafore.” — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
“There are those who talk of the evil spirit of the woods. But for me there is only one evil spirit of woods: the… — H.E. Bates Copy Share Image
