Mrs Midnight And Other Stories
“If you arrived by steamer, you would have disembarked onto a stone jetty that extended a long grey arm into the oily smooth waters of the Black Sea. Having made your way along this you would have encountered a row of open carriages awaiting you on the broad esplanade which curved in an elegant parabola around the bay. Before conducting you and your baggage to your hotel, their drivers, unless expressly ordered not to do so, would have taken you on a tour of the town of which they were justifiab...ly proud.Petropol had been laid out somewhat in the French style, with wide, tree-lined boulevards. Princes and Archdukes owned high-walled villas by the sea while their yachts rode at anchor in the bay. The poorer districts lay in the foothills behind the town where no-one but the poor needed to visit them. There was a little casino, like a miniature palace made out of pink sugar, a monumental and severely classical town hall and the famous Botanical Gardens whose collection of rare plants was said to have been unmatched east of the Carpathians.MoreLess
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