generous-sounding

Updated: May 7, 2025

Edward Freely was the name that shone in gilt letters on a mazarine ground over the doorplace of the new shop a generous-sounding name, that might have belonged to the open-hearted, improvident hero of an old comedy, who would have delighted in raining sugared almonds, like a new manna-gift, among that small generation outside the windows. But Mr.

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