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The Pauper of Park Lane
Ah! You mean the secret loverthe man who was here yesterday and bought a twenty-guinea evening gown of her to send to his sistereh? exclaimed Mr Warner, buyer of the costume department of the great drapery house of Cunningtons, in Oxford Street, that huge store which, as everybody knows, competes with Whiteleys and Harrods for the premier place of the middle-class trade in London. Yes, laughed Miss Thomas, the rather stout middle-aged woman who was head saleswoman of the department, as she stood in the small, glass-partitioned office of the buyer, a pleasant-faced man of forty-five who was an expert in ladies costumes, and twice yearly bought his stock personally in Paris and in Berlin. Yes. Shes a really nice girl, but I cant quite make her out, although shes been here for over a year now. And the lover? asked the buyer, with a glance across the long square room where autumn costumes of every description were displayed upon stands, or hanging by the hundred in long rows, while ranged round the walls were many expensive evening-dresses exhibited in glass cases. It was afternoon, and the place was full of customers, the assistants in their neat black holding ready-made skirts to their sides to try the effect, or conducting the prospective purchaser to the fitting-rooms. And yet they were not what Mr Warner termed busy. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 40835
Author: Le Queux, William
Release Date: Sep 22, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Merrill, Frank T., 1848-1923
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