In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark Bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in."
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens. (I started an essay at A-level by asserting that this was an allusion to Lovelace's To Lucasta. Pretentious, wrong, but it helps my memory now.)
Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens.
Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet.
It's the first line of The Dead, from Dubliners.
Quote from: Deano on 26 April, 2012, 03:40:33 pmIt's the first line of The Dead, from Dubliners.Bing!Clarion - you walked right into my carefully laid trap. d.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.
So I did! It's the formatting on the ebook version. Doubly well done, then.
Yes, I just realised; it's Tarzan, isn't it?