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...drowsy county of Kent means perfect peace and perfect quiet, dozing to the murmuring of bees, the lowing of cattle, the gentle purl of streams like the Beult, the Great Stour and the Little Stour. But in the Kentish village of Molash, 8½ miles from Canterbury, grey-haired Hilda Hyams, 54, was being driven mad by another sound: a low-pitched, persistent hum. Her novelist husband, Edward, could not hear the hum, but he dutifully checked the water pipes and main, arranged to have the electrical wires near the house slackened, even cut off the telephone. Hilda Hyams went...
...devil; she is put in a trance. With a wreath of paper flowers in her hair she is made to dream that she is about to enter into chaste matrimony with a handsome prince. Her face is transformed from a bedraggled chippie's to an incarnation of Hawthorne's Hilda. Then the devil snaps his fingers, house lights come up, and she awakens to rows of hooting, callous men delighting in her vulnerability. But she has died before, and she will die again...
EUSTACE AND HILDA (736 pp.)-L. P. Hartley-British Book Centre...
...drab is a girl named Hilda, and the dim is a boy named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course...
...Novel No. 2, The Sixth Heaven, Eustace has turned into a pet of the Oxford esthetes. He has still not made it to the Stately Home set, but this social beatification is only a matter of time. Sister Hilda and he are invited to Anchorstone Hall, ancestral padded seat of the Staveleys, a proud family said to have their coat of arms embroidered even on the bath mats. Dashing Dick Staveley, M.P., is the very man who used to knock down Eustace's sand castles. Now he falls in love with Hilda, and takes her up in his private...