Queen Lucia. Edward Frederic Benson
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Название: Queen Lucia
Автор: Edward Frederic Benson
Издательство: Bookwire
Жанр: Документальная литература
isbn: 4064066071233
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Edward Frederic Benson
Queen Lucia
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066071233
Table of Contents
ROBIN LINNET
ACROSS THE STREAM
UP AND DOWN
AN AUTUMN SOWING
THE TORTOISE
DAVID BLAIZE
DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR
MICHAEL
THE OAKLEYITES
ARUNDEL
THE FREAKS OF MAYFAIR
THE WHITE EAGLE OF POLAND
CRESCENT AND IRON CROSS
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
“QUEEN LUCIA”
Chapters(not individually listed)
“QUEEN LUCIA”
CHAPTER I
Though the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs. Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her. After those four hours in the train a short walk would be pleasant, but, though she veiled it from her conscious mind, another motive, subconsciously engineered, prompted her action. It would, of course, be universally known to all her friends in Riseholme that she was arriving today by the 12.26, and at that hour the village street would be sure to be full of them. They would see the fly with luggage draw up at the door of The Hurst, СКАЧАТЬ