Goopes

The Goopes were the oddest little couple conceivable, following a fruitarian career upon an upper floor in Theobald's Road.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

The Goopes were the oddest little couple conceivable, following a fruitarian career upon an upper floor in Theobald's Road.

Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906

Very central in Miss Miniver's universe were the Goopes.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

The place was crowded, and the people about her were almost equally made up of very good-looking and enthusiastic young people and a great variety of Goopes-like types.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

The young man with the orange tie, in spite of Sisyphus-like efforts on the part of Goopes to get the topic on to a higher plane, displayed great persistence in speculating upon the possible distribution of the affections of highly developed modern types.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

He addressed himself chiefly to Goopes, and spoke as if in reply to long-sustained inquiries on the part of Goopes into the personnel of the Marylebone Borough Council.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

She let her mind run into dreams of that cloud paradise of an altered world in which the Goopes and Minivers, the Fabians and reforming people believed.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

Mrs. Goopes said she believed in nothing else, and with that she glanced at Ann Veronica, rose a little abruptly, and directed Goopes and the shy young man in the handing of refreshments.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

And that brought them to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and the young man in the orange tie and Mrs. Goopes had a great set-to about the sincerity of Chesterton and Belloc that was ended by Goopes showing signs of resuming the Socratic method.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

She described the Goopes and the Fabians to him, and gave him a sketch of her landlady; and he talked in the most liberal and entertaining way of a modern young woman's outlook.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909