Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream,… - Gerald Durrell

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Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

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Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a naturalist, zookeeper, author, and television presenter, most famous for founding what is now called the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the Channel Island of Jersey and for writing a number of books based on his animal-collecting and conservation expeditions. He was the brother of Lawrence Durrell.

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Native Name: Gerald Malcolm Durrell

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Roses dropped petals that seemed as big and smooth as saucers, flame red, moon and white, glossy, and unwrinkled.

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"Ciao vecchio finocchio", lo salutò. E poi ricominciò a bere e ad ubriacarsi."

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. – DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, II,

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