When Gentleman came, the show gave a kind of jog. That’s what living in the country does to you. I grew afraid of what would happen if the turning was to stop. There might have been a great handle set into the side of the house, and a great hand winding it.-Sometimes, when the view beyond the windows was dark or grey with mist, I imagined that handle and thought that I could almost hear it turning. There might as well have been grooves laid for us in the floorboards we might have glided on sticks. The house bell woke us up in the mornings, and after that we all went moving on our ways from room to room, on our set courses, until the bell rang us back into our beds at night. “Besides, the days at Briar were run so very regular, it was quite like some great mechanical show, you could not change it. “You could not have grown up in such a house, that had such businesses in it, without having a pretty good idea of what was what-of what could go into what and what could come out. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of Dickensian London and the cloistered gloom of a Gothic mansion in the countryside in 1862.
Travel Guide The London of the Fingersmiths
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