Excerpt from The Drama of Yesterday to-Day, Vol. 2 of 2
How well I can recall it all! It was evening! It was late autumn! It was in the year 1866! Yes; there I was, sitting, all alone, in one of the prettiest rooms contained in the long rambling rabbit warren known as the War Office, Pall Mall, scribbling away at my desk.
In my novitiate days, with "youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm," I thought myself lucky to occupy a ground-floor window close to the Pall Mall pavement, where all the swells in London were to be seen; to watch the familiar faces of the veteran warriors at the "Rag" over the way; and on Levee days to see the grand uniforms passing, and repassing, from the various Service and other clubs, to St. James's Palace.
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