None But the Lonely HeartThe author looks at life through the eyes of Ernie Mott, an inarticulate London Cockney whose horizon is bounded by mean streets: whose only recreation is the tawdry Fun Fair; whose ambition is to be " in the money" : for whom women are a source of tantalizing and unsatisfied desire. |
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Page 47
... sort of big glass affair with a pair of pincers on a arm inside of it , what you swung round to try and pull up some of the prizes , small clocks and spoons and things , a proper load of junk it was , He was trying to watch her , and ...
... sort of big glass affair with a pair of pincers on a arm inside of it , what you swung round to try and pull up some of the prizes , small clocks and spoons and things , a proper load of junk it was , He was trying to watch her , and ...
Page 79
... sort of bloke he was , not a bad sort , but he never had much to say . His Mrs was queer most of the time and he always went home early to do the housework , so he was a bit unlucky . If you come on him while he was working , and sort ...
... sort of bloke he was , not a bad sort , but he never had much to say . His Mrs was queer most of the time and he always went home early to do the housework , so he was a bit unlucky . If you come on him while he was working , and sort ...
Page 96
... sort of anxious , watching him , look- ing with them black onion eyes of his . " Funny , " Old Nick says , sort of sad and stretching it out a bit . " Very funny . I would like to know what is matter why I can't talk . With you father I ...
... sort of anxious , watching him , look- ing with them black onion eyes of his . " Funny , " Old Nick says , sort of sad and stretching it out a bit . " Very funny . I would like to know what is matter why I can't talk . With you father I ...
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