matthew-in-the-crescent

Updated: May 26, 2025

They were slim, neat women, whose rather yellow faces had the flat, squashed look of lawn grass after a garden roller has passed over it. They believed in God according to the Reverend Stephen Hunt, of St. Matthew-in-the-Crescent the church round the corner but in no other kind of God whatever. They were not rich, and they were not poor; they went once a week Fridays to visit the poor of St.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Golden Scarecrow