dark-as-a-pocket

Updated: May 26, 2025

Then the two passed out of hearing. Breakfast any meal for that matter in the high-wainscoted, dark-as-a-pocket dining-room of the successful Wall Street broker the senior member of the firm of A. Breen & Co., uncle, guardian and employer of the fresh, rosy-cheeked lad who sat next to Peter on the night of Morris's dinner, was never a joyous function.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Peter: a novel of which he is not the hero