The Two Sides of the Shield
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781404357853
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; General; Fiction - General
First sentence: A London dining-room was lighted with gas, which showed a table of small dimensions, with a vase of somewhat dirty and dilapidated grasses in the centre, and at one end a soup tureen, from which a gentleman had helped himself and a young girl of about thirteen, without much apparent consciousness of what he was about, being absorbed in a pile of papers, pamphlets, and letters, while she on her side kept a book pinned open by a gravy spoon.