Harlequinade: A Novel (1920) - Tapa blanda

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Westminster Gazette from the cripple outside Waterloo, leisurely entered the station, and caught the five-seventeen to Clapham Junction. Five evenings out of seven in each week he did the same, for, despite his comparatively few years, he was already a creature of habit, the vice which, complacent and insidious, destroys more souls than all the others together. He was a Civil Servant, so that he was not wholly to blame. Arrived at Clapham Junction without exception the most abominable station in all the world he walked home along Northcote Road, up to Wandsworth Common, and so to Mansfeld Road, wherein at number eighty-seven he lived. He always went home that way .. .T he house was what romantic house-agents quaintly describe as double-fronted. A tiny garden faced the road and produced in due season geraniums, lobelia, and reluctant roses (N ature is almost as much a slave to habit as a Civil Servant). This garden was as unpersuadable as a mule, and for twenty years Maurice sfather had steadily failed to achieve a certain pet desire of his, to wit, a synchronizing display of red, white, and blue flowers which should leave no doubt as to the thought, the principle, behind them.
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