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The fact that it was an unusually sunny morning for an English summer day had not put Peter Daventry in the mood that it undoubtedly should have done. A riotous evening-during which he had dined not wisely but too well with a number of men who had been at Oxford with him-is not perhaps the best preparation for work on the following day, and Peter heartily cursed the relentless and inexorable fate that had made him junior partner of "Merryweather, Linnell and Daventry-Solicitors. " He thrust his hands into his pockets and walked to the window of his room, gazing disconsolately at the street below.
"Cornhill! " he muttered. "And it might be anywhere else for all it means to me, or for all I care. It's a dull old world nowadays and devilish difficult to get thrills out of a business like this. After a night with the lads it gets me ‘on the raw' more than ever."