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Burlesques

CHAPTER XXIV
13/27

Godfrey had the box.

He was strolling, listlessly, eastward; and the above thoughts passed through the young noble's mind as he came in sight of Holywell Street.
The occupants of the London Ghetto sat at their porches basking in the evening sunshine.

Children were playing on the steps.

Fathers were smoking at the lintel.

Smiling faces looked out from the various and darkling draperies with which the warehouses were hung.


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