The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516988945)

A wind was blowing through the city. Not a gentle and balmy zephyr, stirring the locks on gentle ladies' foreheads and rustling the curtains in elegant boudoirs, but a chill and bitter gale that rushed with a swoop through narrow alleys and forsaken courtyards, biting the cheeks of the few solitary wanderers that still lingered abroad in the darkened streets. In front of a cathedral that reared its lofty steeple in the midst of the squalid houses and worse than squalid saloons of one of the dreariest portions of the East Side, stood the form of a woman. She had paused in her rush down the narrow street to listen to the music, perhaps, or to catch a glimpse of the light that now and then burst from the widely swinging doors as they opened and shut upon some tardy worshipper.

Author: Anna Katharine Green
ISBN-10: 1516988949
ISBN-13: 9781516988945
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2015
Pages: 126
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.27d