• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story
• Length: 42 pages

• Found in: The Listener and Other Stories (short story collection)

The Listener is a 1907 short story by author Algernon Blackwood. - AsNotedIn

Sept 4 - I have hunted all over London for rooms suited to my income - £120 a year - and have at last found them. Two rooms, without modern conveniences, it is true, and in an old, ramshackle building, but within a stone's throw of P - Place and in an eminently respectable street. The rent is only £25 a year. I had begun to despair when at last I found them by chance. The chance was a mere chance, and unworthy of record. I had to sign a lease for a year, and I did so willingly. The furniture from our old place in Hampshire, which has been stored so long, will just suit them.

Places

• British Museum, London I have had no exercise lately, for the weather has been shocking, and all my afternoons have been spent in the reading-room of the British Museum, where I have a reader's ticket.
• City of London, Here I am in my two rooms, in the centre of London, and not far from the offices of the periodicals, where occasionally I dispose of an article or two. The building is at the end of a cul-de-sac. The alley is well paved and clean, ....