IN ENGLAND
romanesque cathedral, when, tired and thirsty at five o’clock in the afternoon, I knocked at the doors of tea-rooms and taverns, beer shops, tobacconists and stationers, but it was not opened unto me. At five o’clock in the afternoon Ely is asleep; unhappily I had no time to investigate what Ely does at three o’clock in the afternoon or at ten o’clock in the morning; perhaps it just does nothing else but sleep. So I sat down amid the cow-manure in
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