The Extra Day
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than ...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Fantasy fiction, English Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III DEATH OF A MERE FACT There was a man named Jinks. In him was neither fancy, imagination, nor a sign of wonder, and so he -- died. But, though he appears in this chapter, he disappears again so quickly that his being mentioned in a sentence all by himself should not lead any one astray. Jinks made a false entry, as it were. The children crossed him out at once. He became illegible. For the trio had their likes and dislikes; they resented liberties being taken with them. Also, when there was no one to tell them stories, they were quite able to amuse themselves. It was the inactive yet omnipotent Maria who brought about indirectly the obliteration of Mr. Jinks. And it came about as follows: Maria was a podgy child of marked individuality. It was said that she was seven years old, but she declared that eight was the figure, because some uncle or other had explained, " you're in your eighth year." Wandering uncles are troublesome in this kind of way. Every time her age was mentioned she corrected the informant. She had a trick of moving her eyes without moving her head, as though the round face was difficult to turn; but her big blue eyes slipped round without the least trouble, as though oiled. The performance gave her the sly and knowing aspect of a goblin, but she had no objection tothat, for it saved her trouble, and to save herself trouble -- according to nurses, Authorities, and the like -- was her sole object in existence. Yet this seemed a mistaken view of the child. It was not so much that she did not move unnecessar...
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