A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING
A NOVEL
Book 1
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
1
THE MEN AT WORK at the corner of the street had made a kind of camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red hurricane-lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of subterranean drain-pipes. Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with ...