Marriage A La Mode.
by Katherine MansfieldGenre: Drama
Setting: New Zealand
Format of Original Source: Short Story
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Candidate for Adaptation? Not Reviewed
EXCERPT:
On his way to the station William remembered with a fresh pang of disappointment that he was taking nothing down to the kiddies. Poor little chaps! It was hard lines on them. Their first words always were as they ran to greet him, “What have you got for me, daddy?” and he had nothing. He would have to buy them some sweets at the station. But that was what he had done for the past four Saturdays; their faces had fallen last time when they saw the same old boxes produced again.
And Paddy had said, “I had red ribbing on mine bee-fore!”
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