The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
THE VALLEY OF BONES
A NOVEL
Book 7
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
1
SNOW FROM YESTERDAY’S FALL still lay in patches and the morning air was glacial. No one was about the streets at this hour. On either side of me in the half-light Kedward and the Company Sergeant-Major stepped out briskly as if on parade. Some time in the past – long, long ago in another existence, an earlier, less demanding incarnation – I had stayed a night in this tow ...