The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Braddon, M. E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330730070 ISBN 13: 9781330730072

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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A feather blown across her pathway might be enough to divert her fancy into another channel. He knew her well enough to know that there was no such thing as certainty where she was concerned; but on the off chance he went to Parson's Green, and his eye ran eagerly along the double line of carriages, looking for Mrs. Champion's liveries.

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There were low brooding clouds and a feeling of thunder in the air as Gerard Hillersdon's cab rattled along the King's Road, past squalid slums and shabby gentilities, towards quiet rural Parson's Green. Only a few years ago Parson's Green had still some pretension to rusticity. Where now the speculating builders' streets and terraces stretch right and left in hollow squares and close battalions, there were fine old Georgian and pre-Georgian mansions, and stately sweeps of lawn and shrubbery, and avenues of old-world growth, shutting out the hum and hubbub of the great city.

To one of those respectable old mansions, that one which was second only to Peterborough House in the extent and dignity of its surroundings, Gerard Hillersdon was driving under the heavy sky of a July afternoon, the lowering close of a sunless and oppressive day. Never, not even in mid-winter, had the smoke-curtain hung lower over London than it hung to-day, and if the idea of fog seemed impossible in July there at least prevailed that mysterious condition of the atmosphere, commonly known as "blight," a thick yellow haze, unpierced by a single sun-ray.

To Gerard Hillersdon, ordinarily the most sensitive of men, the atmosphere on this particular afternoon made no difference. He had got beyond that point in which atmosphere can raise a man's spirits or depress them.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330730070
• ISBN 13: 9781330730072
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 358