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Rickety dwellings of undoubted fashion, but of a capacity to

hold nothing comfortably except a disreatin-and-in; and, where their

little supplementary bows and balconies were supported on thin iron

colu upon crutches

Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it,

loo on Vanity

The shops, few in nu to them The pastrycook kneas on his books, and in

that knowledge could be caler

peppermint-drops in his , and half-a-dozen ancient specirocer's whole concession

to the vulgar

plovers' eggs, held all that the poulterer had to say to the rabble

Everybody in those streets seemed (which is always the case at that hour

and season) to be gone out to dinner, and nobody seeone to On the doorsteps there were lounging foote and white polls, like an extinct race

of monstrous birds; and butlers, solitary men of recluse demeanour, each

of whom appeared distrustful of all other butlers The roll of carriages

in the Park was done for the day; the street lahtest fitting gar to the twists in theirfraudulent secrets The spotted dogs who

went out with the carriages, and ere so associated with splendid