Söndags-smakbit # 32

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Like water in wild places av Pamela Jooste
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Smakbit sid.114
-“-Would have been nice if he´d been half so quick with his schoolwork, Doris says.
She´s with them at the magistrate´s court, in her church hat and gloves waiting to hear what the magistrat has to say and what he says is Jerome´s going down and it´s not reform school and time off for good behaviour this time. This time it´s prison and he´s for the high jump. You can look like Robert Redford and smile like an angel. It may have helped in the days he was stealing sweets from the Greek shop. It doesn´t carry any weight with the magistrate. Not when he´s sitting there with a juvenile record as long as your arm and all the facts of the current case in front of him.”