Susan Ertz (1887–1985) British writer
Anger in the Sky (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943), p. 134.
“It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.”
Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
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