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Three Men on the Bummel

CHAPTER VIII
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He said he recalled the story because it was on just such another night as this that he was walking with that man the very last time he ever saw the poor fellow.

They were strolling down the Thames Embankment, Harris said, and the man frightened him then by persisting that he saw the statue of the Duke of Wellington at the corner of Westminster Bridge, when, as everybody knows, it stands in Piccadilly.
It was at this exact instant that we came in sight of the first of these wooden copies.

It occupied the centre of a small, railed-in square a little above us on the opposite side of the way.

George suddenly stood still and leant against the wall of the quay.
"What's the matter ?" I said; "feeling giddy ?" He said: "I do, a little.

Let's rest here a moment." He stood there with his eyes glued to the thing.
He said, speaking huskily: "Talking of statues, what always strikes me is how very much one statue is like another statue." Harris said: "I cannot agree with you there--pictures, if you like.


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