London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
BACK AGAIN TO TOWN.
Tuesday is like unto Monday. I managed to see the Musee Gravin, but when I proposed to visit the | |
313 | Louvre it was suggested to me by an influential authority Not that the influential authority did not admire art, So the visit to the Louvre was changed to a visit to the Magasins du Louvre. And I must confess there was much more novelty about the latter than the former. Again omnibuses, again breakfasts (four ) and dinners. Again new faces, new people, new uniforms, new surroundings, new everything. When we returned about the middle of the week, after two clear days in , it seemed as if we had been away for months. My friend, Dr. Farren Farce, happened to be on the platform. The eminent physician beamed through his benevolent glasses. Then he smilingly addressed me: |
And the had nothing to say to the contrary. | |