Publisher's Synopsis
In the long and intricately inwrought chain of circumstance which renders worthy ofrecord some experiences of Cytherea Graye, Edward Springrove, and others, the first eventdirectly influencing the issue was a Christmas visit.In the above-mentioned year, 1835, Ambrose Graye, a young architect who had justbegun the practice of his profession in the midland town of Hocbridge, to the north ofChristminster, went to London to spend the Christmas holidays with a friend who lived inBloomsbury. They had gone up to Cambridge in the same year, and, after graduatingtogether, Huntway, the friend, had taken orders.Graye was handsome, frank, and gentle. He had a quality of thought which, exercised onhomeliness, was humour; on nature, picturesqueness; on abstractions, poetry. Being, as arule, broadcast, it was all three.
