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THE early morning sunlight of the brilliant late March day<br >sparkled off the sills and railings of the quiet row of town<br >houses in this fashionable section of London. It was weeks<br >before the start of the Season, and few of the upper ten<br >thousand had yet stirred from hearth and home to make<br >their annual pilgrimage to London.<br > But one knocker, at least, was on its door, and the house<br >itself bore an indefinable air of habitation. The occupant of<br >the livery coach drawing up before it was emboldened to<br >think that the house looked welcoming, though she realized<br >that this might be only a reflection of her own hopes, and<br >not truth in fact.<br > A coachman stepped down to assist the passenger out.<br > The lady, obviously a lady of Quality, stopped to remind<br > the driver--once again--that he was to walk the horses;<br > then she hurried up the steps to where the watchful butler<br > was already swinging the door wide.<br > Josephine, Lady Mulford, was a short, plump lady, well<br > past her middle years, with blue eyes that normally danced<br > with mirth and a wealth of silvery hair kept tucked, with<br > little success, beneath a widow s lace cap. She suffered her-<br > self to be conducted to the morning room, where the butler<br > assured her, in sepulchral tones, that: "his lordship will be<br > with you directly, my lady."<br > <br ><br >
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Turkish Delight 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024