gilt-signed

Updated: May 25, 2025

Past the little block of stores which housed a struggling delicatessen, an ambitious, gilt-signed "elite" tailoring establishment, and a dingy, dirty-windowed little jewelry shop, across Southern Avenue where gray-eyed Harriette, that divinity of the preceding year, lived, and still no sign of a change in direction. Once she turned and looked backward.

Herman Gastrell Seely - A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life