Message Boys Quotes

“To the west are the residential streets, wide, treey, high cambered and in genteel disrepair. There are few tenements and further out only the large square sandstone houses of the doctors and lawyers and owners and inheritors, of the clergy and the architects and the retired wealthy. There are no shops and few cars and children play faintly in back gardens. There is quiet and the regular grid of the streets beats a slow drum, the tempo of security. Here the prosperous have always lived and had the message boys come cycling out on big basketed bikes, have walked their dogs and trimmed their privets and the reiteration of these events has given to the place a distinctive brooding aura.”
― Alan Sharp, A Green Tree in Gedde