The Adventures of Hiram Holliday by Paul Gallico

Author:Paul Gallico [Gallico, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1939-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

After he had eaten, Hiram walked over to the Kurfursten Damm and mingled with the crowds that paraded the pavements of that broad street, passing the shops and cafes and beer restaurants, and felt again that curious excitement that had gripped him while dining, and he noted too that he had a nervous constriction at the throat. The feeling was yet new to him, but later he was to know it as a warning.

He stopped in front of a famous antique store, its windows full of lovely and graceful objets d'art, in porcelain, marble and bronze. There was a priceless head by Durer, some little gems of Bokhara prayer rugs, a small, blue vase in whose slender form lay the limitless and ageless art of ancient China, and there was too a graceful, polished harpsichord at which Mozart had once sat. Hiram wished that he might go inside and lay his hands upon its smooth surface and feel what it had once felt of grace and light and inspired beauty. But the store was closed, and Holliday noted on the window in large white lettering the name of the proprietor: 'Herschel Jacobsen, Berlin, Paris, London, New York...Something made him shudder and he turned away and continued to walk. He was still walking the confines of his mental map at three o'clock in the morning when the streets of the grey city were all but deserted except for an occasional cruising green, high-bodied taxi with the checkerband design.

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