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tree_and_leaf ([personal profile] tree_and_leaf) wrote 2008-11-28 03:50 pm (UTC)

Three things about Gherkins

He was actually a bit in love with Harriet; it wasn't just put on for his uncle. But he'd never have articulated it; she was way out of his league, and anyway, Bunter would have had his liver if he'd done anything to hurt Uncle Peter.

He kept up his incunabula collecting, in a quiet way. He wasn't just spending his income on girls and drink and telegraph poles at Oxford... He would have got a third, but in the viva, an examiner got him on to the subject of incunabula, and as a result he scraped a decent second.

He died in the war (heroically, after doing great things for the RAF). I don't like this, much, but I'm afraid I'm convinced of it.

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