Author: Margaret Peterson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-21

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780483562752

Excerpt from The Lure of the Little Drum Din GY small room in a back slum of Soho. The one window so thickly shadowed with dust and a pair of dirty curtains that the light, faint and misty as it was outside, was here scarce able to penetrate at all. Rain had fallen all day, now as night crept over the city it still splashed and trickled on the slushy pavements, down the sides and fronts of the grey smoke-blurred \houses. The house in which the room was situated, grey and squalid like its fellows, boasted of a French restaurant on the ground floor. The Venez Manger was its high sounding title, and indeed to the best of Madam's ability the cuisine of the place seconded this invitation. Here there was always plenty to eat, the scent and savour of it permeated the surrounding atmosphere, and, from eight of an evening onwards, flowed out of its one narrow door down the street to mix and mingle with the many other scents of Soho. So much for Madam's restaurant. She herself, a stout but withal briskly moving Frenchwoman, her hair done 1 into shining curls surrounding a brown face, from which looked out a couple of keen bead like eyes, superintended the comings and goings of her guests downstairs from behind a higher counter set in the corner of the opening door. N 0 guest arrived without a Bon soir, Monsieur or Madame and no guest, one may be very certain of that, left without paying his or her just fee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.