Peter Overlooked?

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There was similar practice in the army following the cancellation of the system that allowed commissions to be purchased.
Consequently London was often packed in Victorian and Edwardian times with off duty officers on half pay, loitering around Horseguards, the Parks and Soho.

Apologies for sliding off topic

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From the 'tribute to the five'..................

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. It is in this way that I get my desultory reading, which includes the few stray leaves of the original MS. of Peter that I have said I do possess, though even they, when returned to the drawer, are gone again, as if that touch of devilry lurked in them still.