Tamarisk Town (Paperback)

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Cassell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE MAYOR OF DEAD MAN'S TOWN The spring was creeping into Marlingate -- it always came into the town a little furtively, showing1 itself chiefly in the shop windows and new-painted house fronts. This year it seemed to have a greater boldness, perhaps because its artificial manifestations were a little less emphatic. The new muslins and the stucco frontages did not so compellingly withdraw one's eyes from the laburnum drooping over garden walls, nor did the smell of paint quite drown the soft, hawthorn-scented airs that came down from the inland fields. However, with the exception of the Marine Hotel, advance bookings were good, though, on the whole, for shorter periods, and showing a tendency to concentrate in the months of July and August instead of overrunning them as far as May and October. The Marine Hotel was indeed rather forlorn -- not a third part full, and having, with the rest of the Parade, lost a little of that white, shining look which made it like a temple facing the sea. It had been, since its opening, the pulse of Marlingate's prosperity -- full in its good times, but of late slack and intermittent. This symptom had not much impressed anyone besides Monypenny and the Hotel Company. To Lewnes and Lusted and their crew it mattered little who filled the town as long as it was full -- indeed, they would rather see it crowded from lodgings in the Totty lands than politely sprinkled from the Hotel. But those who had money invested in the Marfne Hotel Company had been grumbling for some seasons, and now -- with a startling drop in the already decreasi...

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