Penelope (1982)
“James’s Park, and Green Park which were decorated with Oriental temples, towers, pagodas, and bridges. There were balloon ascents, a miniature naval battle on the Serpentine, and a hundred-foot-high Castle of Discord “with all its horrors of fire and destruction” which finally thinned out in smoke to reveal a Temple of Concord.
Penelope saw nothing of this except great bursts of fireworks which sent their thousands of stars cascading over London and lit up her white face as she sat in the corner of the window seat. The Earl had not come. And since the servants had been allowed the day off to watch the celebrations, she had no one to send to ask the Earl what had happened.
At last she could bear it no longer. Wrapped in a long cloak, she slipped from the house and made her way through the deserted streets to Grosvenor Square. All the world and his wife seemed to have taken to the parks.
Penelope’s first awareness that something was badly wrong was when she approached the Earl’s great m...ansion and found that the pavement and the road had been thickly strewn with straw to muffle the wheels of the passing carriages.MoreLess
Penelope saw nothing of this except great bursts of fireworks which sent their thousands of stars cascading over London and lit up her white face as she sat in the corner of the window seat. The Earl had not come. And since the servants had been allowed the day off to watch the celebrations, she had no one to send to ask the Earl what had happened.
At last she could bear it no longer. Wrapped in a long cloak, she slipped from the house and made her way through the deserted streets to Grosvenor Square. All the world and his wife seemed to have taken to the parks.
Penelope’s first awareness that something was badly wrong was when she approached the Earl’s great m...ansion and found that the pavement and the road had been thickly strewn with straw to muffle the wheels of the passing carriages.MoreLess
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