The Kindly Ones - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
THE KINDLY ONES
A NOVEL
Book 6
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
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ALBERT, FLESHY, SALLOW, BLUE CHINNED, breathing hard, sweating a little, fitted an iron bar into sockets on either side of the wooden shutters he had just closed across the final window of the stable-block. Rolled shirt-sleeves, green baize apron, conferred a misleadingly businesslike appearance, instantly dispelled by carpet-slippers of untold shabbiness which encased his l ...