Prelude to Waking

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Miles Franklin. Prelude to Waking

Prelude to Waking

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

PARENTHESIS I

PARENTHESIS II

PARENTHESIS III

PARENTHESIS IV

PARENTHESIS V

PARENTHESIS VI

PARENTHESIS VII

PARENTHESIS VIII

PARENTHESIS IX

PARENTHESIS X

PARENTHESIS XI

PARENTHESIS XII

PARENTHESIS XIII

PARENTHESIS XIV

PARENTHESIS XV

PARENTHESIS XVI

PARENTHESIS XVII

PARENTHESIS XVIII

PARENTHESIS XIX

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Miles Franklin

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Lady George had been a dashing widow, and Lord George dashed decrepit when she assumed his name, because in Mayfair certain privileges attend the male person such as an income or a residence, and, in the case of the titled, no matter how derelict, social precedences.

It may have been precedence that lured Lady George—and residence, there being at that date a house famine—for or on what the couple lived outside of what they welshed sub-tenants for their flat, that was not a flat, numerous inmates of their set often conjectured. Perhaps their exercise of this branch of post-war profiteering was sufficient; though small in scope it was virulent. This sub-tenant octopus is credited with sapping the vitals of the London drama; and extended residence in that shelter in Curdish Street would have drowned me in permanent pot-boiling with not one but dozens of perfidious society novels to my score.

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