George Gissing
In the Year of Jubilee (Musaicum Rediscovered Classics)
Books
OK Publishing, 2020
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EAN 4064066396817
Table of Contents
Part VI: A Virtue of Necessity
Part I: Miss. Lord
CHAPTER 1
At eight o’clock on Sunday morning, Arthur Peachey unlocked his front door, and quietly went forth. He had not ventured to ask that early breakfast should be prepared for him. Enough that he was leaving home for a summer holiday—the first he had allowed himself since his marriage three years ago.
It was a house in De Crespigny Park; unattached, double-fronted, with half-sunk basement, and a flight of steps to the stucco pillars