# Old lamps for new

Author: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938; Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 [Artist]

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73174

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Old+lamps+for+new+Lucas&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The cabman drew up at a gate in an old wall, about a mile out of the town. I noticed as I was waiting for him to give me change that the Cathedral spire was visible down the road. I rang the bell, the gate automatically opened, and I found myself in a pleasant garden facing a square red ample Georgian house, with the thick white window-frames that to my eyes always suggest warmth and welcome and stability. There was no one in sight but a girl of about twelve, with her eyes covered with a bandage, who was being led carefully between the flower-beds by a little boy of some four years her junior. She stopped, and evidently asked who it was that had come in, and he seemed to be describing me...

## Chapters

- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/old-lamps-for-new-73174/chapters/14/index.md)