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...very carefully, because he was in debt; he owed Berenice more than five million dollars." Frankie Addams, who was nearly 13, sat with her eyes closed and wondered how on earth she could convince Berenice and the rest of the world that her real name was F. Jasmine Addams, Esq...
...childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working its way ahead, but always doubling back on itself; two-faced, two-minded. The soiled elbows of Frankie, the brat, keep showing below the sleeves of the orange satin bridal dress which F. Jasmine Addams, Esq. wears to her older brother's wedding...
...deceived by apparent glimpses of things that do not really exist. The culminating point of all this-the hysterical excitement that surrounds her brother's wedding and her vain attempt to run away from home-merely marks the dividing line between awkward F. Jasmine Addams, Esq., and the poised young high-school student named Frances Addams, who smiles condescendingly at old Berenice, and murmurs: "I am just mad about Michelangelo...
...Gubbins, Esq., has bought only one new suit of clothes since 1938, and may now be regarded as the worst-dressed man in Britain...
...Expenditures: ... Of these, income tax was by far the greatest, though as the price of alcohol increased, the expenditure on this pardonable indulgence in wartime was in clanger of reaching the income-tax level. . . . It was observed that the consumption of alcohol by N. Gubbins, Esq., increased during air raids. . . . It was also noticed that the rate of consumption was highest when the alert was sounding and lowest when the all-clear was heard...