Eleanor Spence Quotes

“He glanced up and down the street. A bus had just stopped at the corner, and for no reason at all he remembered how he had once waited every evening, swinging on this same gate, for the sight of his mother getting off the bus.”

“Being well accustomed to an abundance of noise in his daily life, Rowan should no have been especially irritated by the single-note clanging of a metal can rolling over a rocky surface.”

“Then the Firsts go to Barralong, he spends his first -disastrous- week-end away from home; and his sporting activities take up so much of his time that he finds is increasingly difficult to cope with the demands of schoolwork.”

“Something has to be sacrificed-and in putting his interest in Rugby before all other consideration, Rowan finds himself embarking on a course of actioln which has unfortunate consequences.”

“Rowan sighed. He had probably been over-optimistic, expecting to find solitude down here so close to the jetty and the rocky little beach beloved of the local friends, but id did seem rather unfair that the only company he did attract that of a boring kid who played football with a beer-can.”

“Mrs. Price was busy at the stove. Her immediate and overriding desire was to get the meal cooked and served so that she could sit down for at least a quarter of an hour.”

“Yes it is Rugby which is responsible for many of the troubles which beset Rowan in the next few months. He makes a dangerous enemy of Colin Clitford, a fellow team member. ”

“Rugby is the most important thing in Rowan Price’s life and where he is put into the school First Fifteen, he is overjoyed.”

“When Rowan woke up in the morning, everything -unfortunately- was exactly as usual. No matter how hard he tried, he could not persuade himself that he had as much as a sniffle, let alone a sore throat. Even his headache had gone.”

“He slammed his door with a violence that seemed to shake the whole house. Then he sat on his bed and stared at the football pennants pinned to the front of the low-boy.”