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Excerpt from Timothy's Que: A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It
Minerva Court! Veil thy face, O Goddess of Wisdom, for never surely was thy fair name so ill bestowed as when it was applied to this most dreary place!
It was a little less than street, a little more than alley, and its only possible claim to decency came from comparison with the busier thorough fare out of which it opened. This was so much fouler, with its dirt and noise, its stands of refuse fruit and vegetables, its dingy shops and all the miserable traffic that the place engendered, its rickety door ways blocked with lounging men, its Blowsabellas leaning on the window-sills, that the Court seemed by contrast a most desirable and retired place of residence.
Nevertheless it was a dismal spot, with not even an air of faded gentility to recommend it.
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