Quote#Nature
THOUGH the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to…
Quote byEdward Frederic Benson · 1867–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Queen Lucia (1920), . p. 7..
English (original)
THOUGH the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her.
— Edward Frederic Benson
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