six-and-elevenpence

Updated: May 21, 2025

"There are the sainted women, who lead us up, Paul up, always up." A look, such as the young man with the banner might have borne with him to the fields of snow and ice, suffused the O'Kelly's handsome face. Without another word he crossed the road and entered an American store, where for six-and-elevenpence he purchased an alarm-clock the man assured us would awake an Egyptian mummy.

Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome - Paul Kelver, a Novel