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Leonora drove smartly but cautiously down the steep Slope of Oldcastle Street: she could drive as well as a woman may. A group of clay-soiled girls lounging in the archway of a manufactory ex changed rude but admiring remarks about her as she passed. The paces of the cob, the dazzle of the silver-plated harness, the fine lines of the cart, the unbending mien of the driver, made a glittering cynosure for envy. All around was grime, squalor, servitude, ugliness; the inglorious travail of two hundred thousand people, above ground and below it, filled the day and the night. But here, as it were suddenly, out of that earthy and laborious bed, rose the blossom of luxury, grace, and leisure, the final elegance of the industrial district of the Five Towns. The contrast between Leonora and the rough creatures in the archway, between the flower and the phosphates which nourished it, was sharp and decisive: and Leonora, in the September sunshine, was well aware of the contrast. She felt that the loud-voiced girls were at one extremity of the scale and she at the other.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 0365451762
- ISBN 13 9780365451761
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages357
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