bursliness

Updated: May 23, 2025

We shoot up out of a void, and sink back into a void. I had forgotten Bursley and Bursley folk. Recollections rushed in upon me.... I felt beautifully sad. I drew off my gloves, and flung my hat on a chair with a movement that would have bewitched a man of the world, but Mr. George Capey was unimpressed. I laughed. 'What's the joke? he inquired. I adored him for his Bursliness.

Arnold Bennett - Tales of the Five Towns