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MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE

γένοιτο δ’ ἂν πᾶν ἐν τῷ μακρῷ χρόνῷ.

Herodotus, V. 9.

MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE
BEING MEMOIRS OF THE YEARS 1915‒1972
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR OF GRACE 1988
BY
OPAL, LADY PORSTOCK

EDITED BY

RONALD A. KNOX

McCLELLAND & STEWART

PUBLISHERS TORONTO

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

DEDICATED TO

LAURA, TOMMY, E.V., AND MAURICE

THE FIRST READERS OF THIS BOOK

AND, I FEAR,

ITS KINDEST CRITICS

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CHAP.		PAGE

	Editor’s Preface	ix

	Author’s Preface	xiii

I	Childhood (1915‒1930)	1

II	School Days (1930‒1934)	16

III	Oxford (1934‒1938)	33

IV	Travels on the Continent (1938‒1940)	50

V	On the Sick List (1940‒1941)	66

VI	Business and Pleasure (1941‒1944)	81

VII	What I Found in America (1944)	98

VIII	My Marriage (1944)	112

IX	London Society and its Follies... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN! Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!

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