Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Matilda, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of the Day
I do so hate to be early. The' half-hour introduction to a dinner, like the preface to a book, should always be skipped.
One might know one was too early, the fellow drives so fast, said Mr. Penryn, as they swung round the last corner, at the risk of annihilating a pensive nursery-maid, and all her pretty ones, at one fell swoop.
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