Название: LILIAN
Автор: Arnold Bennet
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Языкознание
isbn: 9788027218691
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Arnold Bennet
LILIAN
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-1869-1
TO
BERTIE SULLIVAN
AND
AMARYLLIS
WITH AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE
Table of Contents
III: Advice to the Young Beauty
VIII: Philosophy of the Grey-haired
PART I
I: The Girl Alone
Lilian, in dark blue office frock with an embroidered red line round the neck and detachable black wristlets that preserved the ends of the sleeves from dust and friction, sat idle at her flat desk in what was called "the small room" at Felix Grig's establishment in Clifford Street, off Bond Street. There were three desks, three typewriting machines and three green-shaded lamps. Only Lilian's lamp was lighted, and she sat alone, with darkness above her chestnut hair and about her, and a circle of radiance below. She was twenty-three. Through the drawn blind of the window could just be discerned the backs of the letters of words painted on the glass: "Felix Grig. Typewriting Office. Open day and night." Seen from the street the legend stood out black and clear against the faintly glowing blind. It was 11 P.M.
That a beautiful young girl, created for pleasure and affection and expensive flattery, should be sitting by herself at 11 P.M. in a gloomy office in Clifford Street, in the centre of the luxurious, pleasure-mad, love-mad West End of London seemed shocking and contrary to nature, and Lilian certainly so regarded it. She pictured the shut shops, and shops and yet again shops, filled with elegance and costliness--robes, hats, stockings, shoes, gloves, СКАЧАТЬ