Following my mornings ablutions I liked to take the number twenty three omnibus into the center of London, enjoying the upstairs view down from Wood G...reen to Oxford Circus. There were still to this day patches of the red weed in Harringay and Finsbury Park, but there were always people out with saws and axes to cut it down, and often bonfires of the evil stuff burning bright - the only way to kill the alien vegetation for certain. I would make my purchase of The Times from the Newspaper &. We'd been in there barely a minute when there was a loud hammering on thedoor."Just a minute!" said Gerda, getting to her feet to answer it.Four men in the silver-grey uniforms of the SS pushed past her when shedid, throwing open every door and cupboard in the suite, and even goinginto the bedrooms and checking under our beds. I watched in shockedsilence, wondering what was going on, my heart pounding in my chest. Werethey here for me? Would they arrest me as soon as they were finished. A woman stands on a half risen stage against the back wall dressed as a grey dove,two people also in dove masks (maybe they mark employee’s? The bartender and scary guy had a fox mask though…..) move behind her presumably to set up a play scene as everyone else stares nervously at the woman.After clearing her throat and sweeping the room with her gaze she announces that ‘the drawing of tonight’s participants is about to take place’.As soft nervous talking fills the air one of the other doves. All agreed that the hunts were better, and if the kills were less so, one could always go home and use one's own women. The promotion to this newly-created post made an enormous difference to his social standing, for it meant he stood high in the favour of the Emir and so he was offered, and accepted, the sister of his friend Ghada Baroud, one Nazri, who he fully intended to bear his first son and so become his Head Wife.When he recovered from the hectic party which had followed the wedding and.
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