Idonia: A Romance of Old London

ISBN-13: 9781523765508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 134 str.

Arthur Frederick Wallis

Opis

The first remembrance I hold of my father is of a dark-suited tall man of an unchanging gravity on all occasions. He had, moreover, a manner of saying "Ay, ay," which I early came to regard as the prologue to some definite prohibition; as when I asked him (I being then but a scrubbed boy) for his great sword, to give it to a crippled soldier at our gate, who had lost his proper weapon in the foreign wars-