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This revelation of the American banker as a Machiavellian combination of incompetence and dishonesty is shocking, but not unexpected. There is, however, nothing to be gained by heaping contumely on the heads of these men as they don sackcloth and ashes; distrusted by the public, assailed by the government, they are only able to emit feeble chirps about individualism. Rather is this the time for remedial legislation...
...countryside and country people makes up the other half. Wherever they may come to live, their thoughts will dwell on Sussex, like Authoress Kaye-Smith's books: Sussex Gorse, Tamarisk Town, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth, Susan Spray. Even should Selina come to marrying a Sussex clergyman like Miss Kaye-Smith's husband, Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, she would not follow him to London. She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back...
...Today-in mental sackcloth and spiritual ashes-I am forced to concede that I was duped. . . . Mrs. Harding knew nothing whatever at any time about Nan Britton or her child. . . . Nan Britton's child is not the child of President Harding. That is my opinion [but] I cannot prove...
...parson of the local parish. Five years later both were converted to Roman Catholicism; her husband gave up the ministry. They now live in a Sussex oast-house (hop-drying kiln). Other-books: Sussex Gorse, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, Joanna Godden Married, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth...
SHEPHERDS IN SACKCLOTH ? Sheila Kaye-Smith?Harper...