Chadband

Solway Books 14 St Cuthbert Street, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway DG6 4HZ, 01557 330635Keith Chadband used to drive to work along London's gritty Old Kent Road, but these days his commute hugs the glorious Kirkcudbrightshire coastline.

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Jo, thus apostrophized, gives a slouch backward, and another slouch forward, and another slouch to each side, and confronts the eloquent Chadband with evident doubts of his intentions.

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Chadband and would rather run away from him for an hour than hear him talk for five minutes.

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Exertions (which is the name they go by) of a reverend party of the name of Chadband.

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“Name of Chadband,” Mr. Smallweed puts in, speaking henceforth in a much lower key.

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Chadband are all one to him, except that he knows the Reverend

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Mrs. Snagsby has but recently taken a passage upward by the vessel, Chadband; and her attention was attracted to that Bark A 1 when she was something flushed by the hot weather.

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Mrs. Snagsby, in a spectral bass voice and without removing her eyes from Chadband, says with dreadful distinctness, “Go away!”

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For Chadband is rather a consuming vessel — the persecutors say a gorging vessel — and can wield such weapons of the flesh as a knife and fork remarkably well.

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So Guster, much impressed by regarding herself for the time as the handmaid of Chadband, whom she knows to be endowed with the gift of holding forth for four hours at a stretch, prepares the little drawing – room for tea.

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