Other Fiction Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft: Miss Fallowfield's Fortune. v1. 7 May 2017

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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler: Born : 1860 Apr 9 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England: Died : 1929 Jun 22

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On a summer’s afternoon, when the world was soma thirty years younger than it is at present, two girls; were sitting at tea in a small lodging-house situated in an obscure watering-place on the Welsh coast. The room in which they sat was typical of its time and place. It was on the ground floor, and formed part of what, was termed by its owner “ the dining-room set,” which. 6uite consisted of the said sitting-room and two small bedrooms at the top of the house. True, there was a-bedroom upon the same floor which, to the lay eye, appeared to belong by right to the dining-room; but this was an amateurish way of looking at things, as anyone acquainted with the mysteries of seaside lodgings will at once perceive. It is a fixed rule with all lodging-house keepers that the bedroom attached to the diningroom invariably belongs to the “ drawing-room set,” and, like all other great laws of nature, must be respected and obeyed, even though its why and wherefore remain hidden in obscurity.

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