Sorrow in Sunlight by Ronald Firbank

Author:Ronald Firbank
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Past the Presidency and the public park, the Theatres Maxine Bush, Eden-Garden and Apollo, along the Avenida and the Jazz Halls by the wharf, past little suburban hops, and old, deserted churchyards where bloom geraniums, through streets of squalid houses, and onward skirting pleasure lawns and orchards, bibbitty-bobbitty, beneath the sovereign brightness of the sky, crawled the Farananka tram.

Surveying the landscape listlessly through the sticks of her fan, Miss Edna Mouth grew slightly bored—alas, poor child; couldst thou have guessed the blazing brightness of they Star, thou wouldst doubtless have been more alert!

“Sh’o, it dat far an’ tejus,” she observed to the conductor, lifting upon him the sharp-soft eye of a paroquet.

She was looking bewitching in a frock of silverish mousseline and a violet tallyho cap, and dangled upon her knees an intoxicating sheaf of the blossoms known as Marvel of Peru.

“Hab patience, lil Missey, an’ we soon be dah.”

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