The Wheels of Chance
The Wheels of Chance
by H. G. Wells [Herbert George]
THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTER IN THE STORY
I.
If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)--if you had gone into the Drapery Emporium--which is really only magnificent for shop--of Messrs. Antrobus & Co.--a perfectly fictitious "Co.," by the bye--of Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the p ...