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Margaret Drabble's new memoir, The Pattern in the Carpet , has just been published.

The novelist and critic, Margaret Drabble  rescues Bennett this week from the worst of the charges against him.

Miss Darrell had once begged very humbly that her cook Parker might take a lesson from her, but Mrs. Drabble refused point-blank.

There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk which was of wood, and on the roadway which was of macadam and stiff mud.

There was a wall between Cleg and the Drabble, a wall with a place for your toes.

After that the Drabble, an it liked him, might steal all the collars in the Pleasance.

The Drabble had a reason, or at least an excuse, for being on the spot.