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... five or six cakes of boot blacking , contained in a box slung round his neck . The box had no lid , and the rain was so rapidly liquefying the paper - covered cakes , that the one he held out for me to buy drooped across his mite of a ...
... five or six cakes of boot blacking , contained in a box slung round his neck . The box had no lid , and the rain was so rapidly liquefying the paper - covered cakes , that the one he held out for me to buy drooped across his mite of a ...
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... five of us , sometimes to the soup shop , sometimes to the baked tater and fish shop . It's all right mostly ; course there is hard times . Once a p'lice- man took away my box , blacking and all , ' cos I cheeked him . It was more'n a ...
... five of us , sometimes to the soup shop , sometimes to the baked tater and fish shop . It's all right mostly ; course there is hard times . Once a p'lice- man took away my box , blacking and all , ' cos I cheeked him . It was more'n a ...
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... five , six , and seven years ; and , as a new barrow does not cost more than fifty shillings , it will be at once seen that barrow - farming on a large scale is by no means a profitless speculation . The monopoly , however , suffered a ...
... five , six , and seven years ; and , as a new barrow does not cost more than fifty shillings , it will be at once seen that barrow - farming on a large scale is by no means a profitless speculation . The monopoly , however , suffered a ...
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... five hundred beds every night . I am informed on good authority that oc- casionally the scenes to be witnessed in at least one of these houses - I should be happy to tell the police authorities which one - are appalling . This is after ...
... five hundred beds every night . I am informed on good authority that oc- casionally the scenes to be witnessed in at least one of these houses - I should be happy to tell the police authorities which one - are appalling . This is after ...
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... five had been duly advertised as tea - time , and least an hour before , the various thoroughfares that led to the place of meeting must , to the uninitiated , have presented a curious and perplexing spectacle . Only for the absolute ...
... five had been duly advertised as tea - time , and least an hour before , the various thoroughfares that led to the place of meeting must , to the uninitiated , have presented a curious and perplexing spectacle . Only for the absolute ...
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Сторінка 318 - PARIS HERSELF AGAIN. BY GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. WITH 350 CHARACTERISTIC ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRENCH ARTISTS. "On subjects like those in his present work, Mr. Sala is at his best." — The Times. " This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala.
Сторінка 92 - that that's the fashion at present among my tribe j sure all my brother puppies smoke now, and a man might as well be out of the world as 'out of the fashion, you know.
Сторінка 21 - The most favourite entertainment at this place is known as "tuff-ball" in which both sexes — innocent of clothing — madly join, stimulated with raw whisky and the music of a fiddle and a tin whistle.
Сторінка 320 - LIFE, AND SAVING A DAUGHTER'S DOWRY. By E. About. COLOMBA, AND CARMEN. By P. Merimee. A WOMAN'S DIARY, AND THE LITTLE COUNTESS. By 0. Feuillet. ODETTE'S MARRIAGE. By A. Delpit. THE TOWER OF PERCEMONT. By George Sand. BLUE-EYED META HOLDENIS. By V. Cherbuliez. THE GODSON OF A MARQUIS. By A. Theuriet.
Сторінка 318 - This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala. Endowed with a facility to extract humour from every phase of the world's stage, and blessed with a wondrous store of recondite lore, he outdoes himself when he deals with a city like Paris that he knows so well, and that affords such an opportunity for his pen."— Truth.
Сторінка 319 - PERIL," &c. Illustrated with an Exact Representation of the Diamond Necklace, from a Contemporary Drawing, and a Portrait of the Countess de la Motte, engraved on Steel. " Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader.
Сторінка 319 - Public; and comprising a Sketch of the Life of the Countess de la Motte, pretended Confidant of Marie Antoinette, and Particulars of the Careers of the other Actors in this remarkable Drama. By HENRY VIZETELLY. Illustrated with an exact representation of the Diamond Necklace, and a Portrait of the Countess de la Motte, engraved on steel.
Сторінка 211 - Her skin was dusky yellow, and tightly drawn at the nostrils and the cheek bones ; and evidently she had, since her marriage, taken such a thoroughly Chinese view of life, that her organs of vision were fast losing their European shape, and assuming that which coincided with her adopted nature.
Сторінка 319 - Had the most daring of our sensational novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is true."— A otea and Querie*.
Сторінка 3 - ... laid out his little stock to dry. Ginger's delight, when the landlord brought in along with a big loaf the half of a huge Cheshire cheese, was a sight to behold ; his amazement when the landlord left the room, leaving the half-cheese behind him, I will not attempt to describe. ' He's forgot it, ain't he ? ' he said, handling his knife as though sadly tempted to make the most of the innkeeper's mistake by slicing off a pound or so. ' No, he hasn't forgotten, my lad,' said I, ' he'll fetch it away...