contra mundum
“[Evelyn Waugh] planned to share lodgings with Hugh Lygon in Merton Street. They were going to take an expensive little house next to the tennis courts. [But Evelyn’s father chose not to send him to Oxford for another term.]”
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Paula Byrne’s Mad World
The weeks went by; we looked for lodgings for the coming term and found them in Merton Street, a secluded, expensive little house near the tennis court.