Tante. Anne Douglas Sedgwick
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Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Tante
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066175320
Table of Contents
PART I
CHAPTER I
It was the evening of Madame Okraska's concert at the old St. James's Hall. London was still the place of the muffled roar and the endearing ugliness. Horse-'buses plied soberly in an unwidened Piccadilly. The private motor was a curiosity. Berlin had not been emulated in an altered Mall nor New York in the façades of giant hotels. The Saturday and Monday pops were still an institution; and the bell of the muffin-man, in such a wintry season, passed frequently along the foggy streets and squares. Already