APS TOGETHER
Day 22
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 22
November 27, 2023 by Yiyun Li
I always love dramas that come from the reading of wills: War and Peace, Sense and Sensibility, and now the Yule dramas. I also love that the will-reading happens offstage, giving Jasper much space in this chapter.
“He exhibited no impatience, spoke of the matter in a disinterested tone; still, he came daily.”
Once in a while Gissing can have a sentence so satisfying.
Amy gets “ten thousand pounds produce about four hundred a year; it’s enough to live on.”
So Marian gets five thousand, which means about two hundred a year, which is really nothing, as Jasper and his sisters conclude: not enough to lure a man into marriage.
