The Nine Tailors
The Nine Tailors
“Each year of the Republic, our family have reported to the Capital that there were silted channels and weakened dykes in our neighbourhood. My husband and Maida’s father have just interviewed the present President. They were received politely, but their conclusion is that nothing will be done.
NORA WALN: The House of Exile.
Lord Peter Wimsey sat in the schoolroom at the Rectory, brooding over a set of underclothing. The schoolroom was, in fact, no longer the schoolroom, and had not be...en so for nearly twenty years. It had retained its name from the time when the Rector’s daughters departed to a real boarding-school. It was now devoted to Parish Business, but a fragrance of long-vanished governesses still clung about it—governesses with straight-fronted corsets and high-necked frocks with bell sleeves, who wore their hair à la Pompadour. There was a shelf of battered lesson-books, ranging from Little Arthur’s England to Hall & Knight’s Algebra, and a bleached-looking Map of Europe still adorned one wall.MoreLess
NORA WALN: The House of Exile.
Lord Peter Wimsey sat in the schoolroom at the Rectory, brooding over a set of underclothing. The schoolroom was, in fact, no longer the schoolroom, and had not be...en so for nearly twenty years. It had retained its name from the time when the Rector’s daughters departed to a real boarding-school. It was now devoted to Parish Business, but a fragrance of long-vanished governesses still clung about it—governesses with straight-fronted corsets and high-necked frocks with bell sleeves, who wore their hair à la Pompadour. There was a shelf of battered lesson-books, ranging from Little Arthur’s England to Hall & Knight’s Algebra, and a bleached-looking Map of Europe still adorned one wall.MoreLess
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