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The Arch-Satirist

Frances Fenwick Williams

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CHAPTER III

"FORSAKEN GUTS AND CREEKS"

"If we have loved but well Under the sun, Let the last morrow tell What we have done." —Bliss Carman.

On an exceptionally disreputable Montreal street stood a particularly unsavoury old studio building. Like other unsavoury things it had an interesting history, having, in its palmy days, belonged to an English duke. The duke was now dust and the studio building unpopular with the constabulary. Yet an air of former greatness enveloped it and its large, spacious halls and lofty ceilings bore mute and pathetic testimony to the grandeur of former days.

In an apartment which a duchess had once inhabited rats and spiders revelled, unrebuked, save when, once a week, a wild-eyed slattern clattered noisily in and attacked them with broom and scrubbing-brush. Someti. . . Read More

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