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The Gods and Mr. Perrin
Sir Hugh Walpole
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All these things seemed to rise and scream at her. She noticed, too, with a little pang of dismay that one of the glass dessert dishes was missing. The set had been one of their wedding-presents—the nicest present that they had had. Oh! those servants!... She talked with a brave smile to anybody and everybody, but she watched furtively her husband’s gloomy face.
But Isabel, having given her a smile, turned back and attacked Mr. Perrin, feeling, as she always did about him, that she was sorry for him, that she wanted to be kind to him, and that she would be so glad when her duty would be over. She also noticed that she wanted to talk to Traill again.
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Community Reviews
A história situa-se num colégio e centra-se em intrigas entre professores. Como noutras obras de Walpole, as personagens, na maioria, ou são pessoas fracas de vontade, ou más, ou mesquinhas, ou tudo ao mesmo tempo. Mas aqui a sugestão parece ser a de que embora as pessoas possam aparecer assim a olh
This is a rather gloomy story about a group of people stuck in the place that makes them unhappy and sometime malicious. Yet they seem to accept it without any intention to change it. When the reaction finally comes it is unwelcome since it comes from the wrong guy who is "dull outside and splendid
In the middle of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, a mention is made of a character who was doomed to fail in theatre because she lacked "killer instinct". My impression after reading The Gods and Mr. Perrin was that Hugh Walpole also lacked that "killer instinct". We are set up to dislike a schoolmaste