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In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
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George Gissing

In the Year of Jubilee





Part I: Miss. Lord





CHAPTER 1





At eight o'clock on Sunday morning, Arthur Peachey unlocked his
front door, and quietly went forth. He had not ventured to ask that
early breakfast should be prepared for him. Enough that he was
leaving home for a summer holiday--the first he had allowed
himself since his marriage three years ago.

It was a house in De Crespigny Park; unattached, double-fronted,
with half-sunk basement, and a flight of steps to the stucco pillars
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