Books with title All Change

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... ACT II Time: Evening of the following Sunday. Scene: The same. The table is now closer to the fireplace. The sweetpeas in the vase on the dresser have been changed. Price's week-day coat and a straw hat with Cardiff College band are behind door on left. Sam, in his best clothes, is sitting on the left-hand side of the dresser, his face hidden behind the "News of the World." Gwilym, reading a copy of " Cymru," is seated in the armchair, which is now on the left side of the table. Lewis is standing near the window, looking out. John Henry is seated in the chair by the parlor door. He is a young man of twenty-one, in appearance something like his brother Lewis. Just now he is lost in thought. There is a short spell of silence; then Gwilym, unconsciously, begins to hum the old Welsh hymn, "Bydd myrdd o ryfeddodau." After a bar or two, Lewis and John Henry take it up in harmony. Sam lowers the newspaper and looks at the brothers with perplexity and disgust. Sam. Cheerful, ain't it? Cawn't yer give us somethin' a bit more laively? Laife ain't orl a fun'ril, long drawn aht. Lewis. Strange what a hold they get on a man -- those old hymns. [Sits down on chair by window.] John Henry. Yes, very strange! They seem to get down into your blood somehow. Sam. Not maine, me boy. No fear! Gimme a seat in a music 'all, a pot o' beer, a paipe of baccy, and I'm 'appy -- puffickly 'appy. [Looking at the clock.] I suppose the boss and the missis will be 'ome from chapel before long, nah. I'd better 'op it. Gwilym. They won't be here for some time yet. It's the first Sunday in the month. And there'll be a lot of talk about the Church Meeting next week. They're going to choose the pastor then. Lewis. Aay. There'll be father pulling the strings for Thomas...

Seven-year-old Ben loves his teacher, Mrs Peacock. She lets the children eat their fruit in the playground, and go out to play early if they are good (admittedly not very often). But, best of all, she tells the most fantastic stories about magic conkers and carrots with legs. And the toys in the classroom come to life at night. Ben knows this is true as, each morning, Mrs Peacock shows the children the rubbish the toys have left behind. When Mrs Peacock starts to act rather strangely, Ben and his friends wonder what’s going to happen next. They can’t understand why they have to take their swimming things in for the second time that week, when they have been to the pool two days before. Ben’s mum already thinks that Mrs Peacock is a barmy old bat, and this latest instruction seems to confirm her suspicions. Mrs Peacock might seem barmy, but she is so fed up with a noisy class that she is willing to try anything to keep them quiet. She has noticed that the only time the children aren’t noisy is when they go for their swimming lessons, so she hatches a desperate plan to improve her life in school. A plan that involves a hosepipe, an open skylight, twenty-five children and an awful lot of water.

Facing the Corenthio Coven was nearly the end for Cora and Jack. Yet things are about to get worse.Alastair, the leader of the Scottish Coven, views Jack as a threat, one that needs to be dealt with. Alastair will do everything he can to influence every coven in the UK to support his plan.His plan is simple. He wants to force a wall between Cora and Jack, dividing their coven completely.This new threat brings forth an old one, the Corenthio Coven have unfinished business. Can Cora and Jack work together, or will the odds piling up against them finally break the unity of their coven?