The Prophet of Berkeley Square The Prophet of Berkeley Square

The Prophet of Berkeley Square

Publisher Description

The Prophet of Berkeley Square is a Fiction Short Story Book. Book says the great telescope of the Prophet was carefully adjusted upon its lofty, brass bound stand in the bow window of Number One Thousand Berkeley Square. It pointed towards the remarkably bright stars which twinkled in the December sky over frosty London, those guardian stars which always seemed to the Prophet to watch with peculiar solicitude over the most respectable neighbourhood in which he resided. The polestar had its eye even now upon the mansion of an adjacent ex premier, the belt of Orion was not oblivious of a belted earl's cosy red brick home just opposite, and the house of a certain famous actor and actress close by had been taken by the Great Bear under its special protection. The Prophet's butler, Mr. Ferdinand that bulky and veracious gentleman threw open the latticed windows of the drawing room and let the cold air rush blithely in. Then he made up the fire carefully, placed a copy of Mr. Malkiel's Almanac, bound in dull pink and silver brocade by Miss Clorinda Dolbrett of the Cromwell Road, upon a small tulip wood table near the telescope, patted a sofa cushion affectionately on the head, glanced around with the meditative eye of the butler born not made, and quitted the comfortable apartment with a salaried, but soft, footstep. It was a pleasant chamber, this drawing room of Number One Thousand. It spoke respectfully of the generations that were past and seemed serenely certain of a comfortable future. There was no too modern uneasiness about it, no trifling, gim crack furniture constructed to catch the eye and the angles of any one venturing to seek repose upon it, no unmeaning rubbish of ornaments or hectic flummery of second rate pictures.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1950
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
321
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
210.6
KB

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