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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

CHAPTER I--_The Charter of the Cities_
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Remember it very carefully, for it is most important, and I have forgotten it altogether, and send me another cup of coffee and some of the cigars that we keep for vulgar and successful people.

I am going to write my paper." The Society for the Recovery of London Antiquities met a month after in a corrugated iron hall on the outskirts of one of the southern suburbs of London.

A large number of people had collected there under the coarse and flaring gas-jets when the King arrived, perspiring and genial.

On taking off his great-coat, he was perceived to be in evening dress, wearing the Garter.

His appearance at the small table, adorned only with a glass of water, was received with respectful cheering.
The chairman (Mr.Huggins) said that he was sure that they had all been pleased to listen to such distinguished lecturers as they had heard for some time past (hear, hear).


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