The Light of Other Days, Vol. 1 of 2: Seen Through the Wrong End of an Opera Glass (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Addison, with his family, takes possession of the rooms we have hitherto occupied, my father, with the privilege, I suppose, of the moneyed partner, moving into a private house. I can use the opera-glass myself now, and tell you what I see through it - Albion Street, Hyde Park. Tyrone Power, the Irish comedian, lives next door to us; Sir 'henry Bishop, the composer, lower down and the Archers, who later on are to be very closely related to Mr. And Mrs. Kendal of the present day, have a house in the same street. There's a garden behind our dwelling from which we can get into the green fields beyond; over the side-wall the Power children and my sister and I are continually climbing, and as often getting into disgrace for doing so.
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