Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Head of the Firm, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel
Never, surely, was there a finer Whit Monday, which, after all, is the holiday Of the year to Londoners - the day thought Of, looked forward to, and back upon, with feel ings Of intense satisfaction.
On the especial Whit Monday when this story opens, people had poured out of town in their thousands and hundreds Of thousands. Every road leading to any place Of popular resort was alive with excursionists.
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