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That moment leads into an emotionally charged summer of a blind date, unsettling interpretations of an admirer’s handwriting, and Nick’s growing intimacy with the Feddens’ household in Notting Hill. 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It was called Landslide!, and the witty assistant at Dillons had arranged the window in a scaled-down version of that natural disaster. The pale-gilt image of the triumphant Prime Minister rushed towards die customer in a gleaming slippage. Nick stopped in the street, and then went in to look at a copy. He had met Peter Crowther once, and heard him described as a hack and also as a 'mordant analyst': his faint smile, as he flicked through the pages, concealed his uncertainty as to which account was nearer the truth. There was clearly something hacklike in the speed of publication, only two months after the event; and in the actual writing, of course. The book's mordancy seemed to be reserved for the efforts of the Opposition. Nick looked carefully at trie photographs, but only one of them had Gerald in it: a group picture of 'The 101 New Tory MPs', in which he'd been clever enough, or quick enough, to get into the front row. He sat there smiling and staring as if in his own mind it was already the front bench. The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chapsin the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns. Even so, he was mentioned only twice in the text -as a 'bon viveur', and as one of the 'dwindling minority' of Conservative MPs who had passed, 'as Gerald Fedden, the new Member for Barwick, so obviously has', through public school and Oxbridge. Nick left the shop with a shrug; but out in the street he felt delayed pride at this sighting of a person he knew in a published book.  \nHe had a blind date at eight that evening, and the hot August day was a shimmer of nerves, with little breezy interludes of lustful dreaming. The date wasn't totally blind - 'just very shortsighted', Catherine Fedden said, when Nick showed her the photograph and the letter. She seemed to like the look of the man, who was called Leo, and who she said was so much her type; but his handwriting made her jumpy. It was both elaborate and impetuous. Catherine had a paperback called Graphology: The Mind in the Hand, which gave her all sorts of warnings about peoples tendencies and repressions ('Artist or Madman?' 'Pet or Brute?') . 'It's those enormous ascenders, darling,' she said: 'I see a lot of ego.' They had pursed their lips again over the little square of cheap blue writing paper. 'You're sure that doesn't just mean a very strong sex drive?'Nick asked. But she seemed to think not. He had been excited, and even rather moved, to get this letter from a stranger; but it was true the text itself raised few expectations. 'Nick-OK! Ref your letter, am in Personnel (London Borough of Brent) . We can meet up, discuss Interests and Ambitions. Say When. Say Where' - and then the enormous rampant L of Leo going halfway down the page.  \nNick had moved into the Feddens' big white Notting Hill house a few weeks before. His room was up in the roof, still clearly the children's zone, with its lingering mood of teenage secrets and rebellions. Toby's orderly den was at the top of the stairs, Nick's room just along the skylit landing, and Catherine's at the far end; Nick had no brothers or sisters but he was able to think of himself here as a lost middle child. It was Toby who had brought him here, in earlier vacations, for his London 'seasons', long thrilling escapes from his own far less glamorous family; and Toby whose half-dressed presence still haunted the attic passage. Toby himself had never perhaps known why he and Nick were friends, but had amiably accepted the evidence that they  \nwere. In these months after Oxford he was rarely there, and Nick had been passed on as a friend to his little sister and to their hospitable parents. He was a friend of the family; and there was something about him they trusted, a gravity, a certain shy polish, something not quite apparent to Nick himself, which ","cbCaivXCuK5oSYq8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivXCuK5oSYq8","pdf",2974188,273,"English","# Nick’s encounter with election writing\n## Recognition in Peter Crowther’s book\n## A blind date and graphology suspicions\n# Life inside the Feddens’ house\n## Moving into Notting Hill\n## Trust, lodger status, and family dynamics\n## Exploring the house and imagining future belonging","[{\"question\":\"Why does Nick feel delayed pride after seeing Gerald mentioned in a published book?\",\"answer\":\"Nick recognizes Gerald in Peter Crowther’s election account and feels a private thrill that someone he knows is recorded in print, even though the text still leaves uncertainty about what is true.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does Catherine’s graphology interest play in the blind date?\",\"answer\":\"Catherine uses graphology to read the stranger’s letter, interpreting the handwriting as signaling ego and likely inner traits rather than just sexual drive, which makes her nervous and skeptical.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Nick come to live with the Feddens in Notting Hill?\",\"answer\":\"After moving to London, Nick lodges with the Feddens through the family’s trust and the arrangement’s political and personal logic, following his prior connection through Toby.\"}]","The Line of Beauty | PDF",420]