Excerpt from The Handsome Humes, Vol. 1 of 3
On a certain night in February a numerous and distinguished company was gradually assembling in the Marie Antoinette room of the Hotel Metropole, Northumberland Avenue, the occasion being the coming of age of a young man called Sidney Hume. But of all the people arriving or arrived there, none presented so striking a figure as the hostess herself, a woman of quite unusual stature, straight as a wand, yet not without the presence and substantiality befitting her years, which lay between the fifties and sixties.
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