When William Came a Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns
When William Came a Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns
Saki
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Over the gateways was blazoned the badge of the club, an ele phant, whale, and eagle, typifying the three armed forces of the State, by land and sea and air ; the eagle bore in its beak a scroll with the proud legend : " The last am I, but not the least. " To the eastward of this gaily-humming hive the long shuttered front of a deserted ducal mansion struck a note of protest and mourning amid the noise and whirl and colour of a seemingly uncaring city. On the other side of the roadway, on the g...ravelled paths of the Green Park, small 176 WHEN WILLIAM CAME ragged children from the back streets of Westminster looked wistfully at the smooth trim stretches of grass on which it was now forbidden, in two languages, to set foot. Only the pigeons, disregarding the changes of political geography, walked about as usual, wondering perhaps, if they ever wondered at anything, at the sudden change in the distribution of park humans. Yeovil turned his steps out of the hot sunlight into the shade of the Burlington Arcade, familiarly known to many of its newer frequenters as the Passage.
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