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...finds Louisa a soft-spoken girl with pudding-round cheeks and plain as rain. But her younger sister Ida is another matter-lithe, shrill, dark and electric. Roger kisses her on a dare, and shortly dares more. "What about Louisa? What are we going to do?" asks a momentarily sin-shocked Ida. "Do? Why, keep our mouths shut, I should think," answers Roger...
...East Riding folk refuse to do the same, and gossip begins to sputter. Roger and Ida resolve to stay out of each other's way, but it is a promise made between a magnet and a nail. With Ida at his side, a shaken but straightforward Roger deals Louisa a crushing blow: "It seems as if her and me can't help it, Lou, can't keep apart, we shall have...
...this point Novelist Nicholson keeps his story of reckless love under perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make...
Toward Expiation. Morris Bober's world is bounded by his seedy store, his endlessly nagging wife Ida, his difficult daughter Helen-a girl who wants "to be a virgin again and at the same time a mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair...
When shabby Frank Alpine shows up, eager to work without pay ("I need the experience"), Morris suspects there must be a catch somewhere. Why should anyone want to work for nothing, Ida asks, and a gentile at that. "Give him better a dollar he should go someplace else," she urges. But Frank stays and, miraculously, business improves. Frank Alpine is slowly revealed as a man whose aspirations are several light-years ahead of his performance. He works hard, but cannot resist stealing from the till. Then Morris discovers that Frank is one of the two robbers who held...