Newport Summer
“He was a country man at heart, loving the open spaces of his estate and the call of the land. Still, he spent a significant part of each year in London, and he knew his way around a big city.
London was no backwater but an international center from which it seemed all spokes of the world radiated.
Gannon supposed he was more than a bit guilty of seeing London as the sole hub of the world. After all, any Englishman worth his salt had been brought up to see the rightness of the British motto, “Ma...ke the world England.”
Even so, New York City was a marvel, hardly a provincial town full of colonial idiosyncracies. When he said as much to Lionel, Lionel had laughed, saying, “We have those too, Gannon. If you want idiosyncracies, you can go to Boston. They’ve got so many rules in their high society, it’s just no fun to be in the club”
Lionel was proud to show off his city and gladly took Gannon everywhere. The day Lionel took him to Newspaper Row, where the major newspapers were headquartered, Gannon had to concentrate on not walking around looking up.MoreLess
London was no backwater but an international center from which it seemed all spokes of the world radiated.
Gannon supposed he was more than a bit guilty of seeing London as the sole hub of the world. After all, any Englishman worth his salt had been brought up to see the rightness of the British motto, “Ma...ke the world England.”
Even so, New York City was a marvel, hardly a provincial town full of colonial idiosyncracies. When he said as much to Lionel, Lionel had laughed, saying, “We have those too, Gannon. If you want idiosyncracies, you can go to Boston. They’ve got so many rules in their high society, it’s just no fun to be in the club”
Lionel was proud to show off his city and gladly took Gannon everywhere. The day Lionel took him to Newspaper Row, where the major newspapers were headquartered, Gannon had to concentrate on not walking around looking up.MoreLess
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