Lighting-Up Time

Excerpt from Lighting-Up Time
Outside, on the very commonplace door that led into the street that led into Oxford Street was written on a plate of brass
Peter Penruddock - Agent,
and below it,
Delphine, The Priestess of Apollo.
That alone concerns us. Others of course had their commerce there. On the ground floor was an enormous boot-shop, an emporium for wares more elegant than enduring: above that a typewriting agency: above that a Commissioner for Oaths and the offices of the Metropolitan Anti-Swearing League; above that an episcopal society kept vigil over the vulgar morals, and was faced across the passage by a gentleman of equine tastes, whose other addresses were in Holland and Switzerland.
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