Excerpt from The Monarch of Mincing Lane
Towards the lower end of Park Lane there are a number of small, narrow, round fronted houses - bijou residences they are called by the auctioneers - which look as if their balconies had been squeezed out of them by absolute pressure. At a window overlooking one of those miniature balconies stood, on the forenoon of a certain day in February, two young people, who did not seem to be in an amiable frame of mind. They looked out in a silent and absent way, on the strange glare of wintry sunshine that lay over the familiar scene before them; but they did not seem to notice the peculiar effect it produced. At this moment, indeed, Hyde Park was transfigured; and any one less intent upon personal affairs could not fail to have been struck by. its appearance. Above the tall houses of Knightsbridge and Kensington Gore, that lay in a faintly blue shadow, there was, instead of the sun, a confused mass of shifting golden mist; and this strong centre of light shone over the broad slopes of the park, which were intensely green with melted hoar frost, and sent a pale radiance to gleam whitely on the ranges of buildings lying west of the Marble Arch. Down in front of Park Lane the leafless trees stood dark and clear in this bewildering light, and you could see through them the arm and shield of the Achilles statue; while around the Serpentine the masses of elms were of a pale blue, and that again became a dusky purple among the close trees of Kensington Gardens.
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