At Lady Molly's - Anthony Powell

ANTHONY POWELL
AT LADY MOLLY’S
A NOVEL
Book 4
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
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WE had known General Conyers immemorially not because my father had ever served under him but through some long-forgotten connexion with my mother’s parents, to one or other of whom he may even have been distantly related. In any case, he was on record as having frequented their house in an era so remote and legendary that, if commission was no longer by purchase, regiments ...