Home / What Will He Do with It? — Volume 06
Five years have passed away since this history opened. It is the month of June once more, June, which clothes our London in all its glory, fills its languid ballrooms with living flowers, and its stony causeways with human butterflies. It is about the hour of six P. M. The lounge in Hyde Park is crowded; along the road that skirts the Serpentine crawl the carriages one after the other; congregate by the rails the lazy lookers- on, lazy in attitude, but with active eyes, and tongues sharpened on the whetstone of scandal, the Scaligers of club windows airing their vocabulary in the Park.