Annie French Hector, ‘Mrs Alexander’ (Dublin, Ireland, 1825 - London, 10 July 1902.) was a 19th-century popular novelist.
ExcerpThe great currents of business and pleasure were setting strongly up and down the Strand, with their accustomed even roar, on a bright May morning, some three or four years ago. The season was at its prime. Already a crowd of visitors impeded each other’s progress at the Royal Academy Exhibition; half-' past eleven had chimed from St Martin’s, and the relieved guard of Blues had turned into Waterloo Place on their homeward way to Albany Street.
In one of the best rooms in Morley’s Hotel, looking on Trafalgar Square, an elaborate breakfast was laid out, including, among other accessories of a later meal, a bottle of brandy, while two or three of soda water lay modestly on their sides in the cavity of the sideboard.
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