A novel, 1916
Uneasy Money
Lord Dawlish, known as Bill, wants to marry Claire Fenwick, but she demands that he make money and resents his refusal to profit dishonestly.
How it begins
In a day in June, at the hour when London moves abroad in quest of lunch, a young man stood at the entrance of the Bandolero Restaurant looking earnestly up Shaftesbury Avenue—a large young man in excellent condition, with a pleasant, good-humoured, brown, clean-cut face.
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