If there had been no war he would have been learning his father’s profession. He had left school six months earlier and was excited at being on his way to a war. He had stayed the night alone at the Grosvenor Hotel, which was an enlargement of his experience, as was also the unaccustomed luxury o...
This was not exactly a public recognition of Wolfie’s genius, but in Saturday’s Age there was a long article by Lady Pringle on the importance of the music of Wolfgang von Flugel. He was so proud of this that in the evening he took it in to read to Mrs Montaubyn, who did not understand a word of ...
They came ashore in a lifeboat, bought new equipment and went on by the next ship. The ship in which Austin with his family now embarked also ran into a storm and Lady Langton thought that she was going to be wrecked a second time. It is a curious if irrelevant fact that nearly every outward voya...
He had recently lost his wife, whose income had helped to run the place, but it now went to their only child, a daughter married to a major in a Gurkha regiment and living in India. This left Colonel Rodgers with inadequate money to continue at Waterpark, and also with insufficient outlet for his...