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Upon that establishment of state, the Merdle establishment in Harley

Street, Cavendish Square, there was the shadow of no more common wall

than the fronts of other establishments of state on the opposite side of

the street Like unexceptionable Society, the opposing rows of houses in

Harley Street were very grim with one another Indeed, the mansions and

their inhabitants were so much alike in that respect, that the people

were often to be found drawn up on opposite sides of dinner-tables, in

the shade of their own loftiness, staring at the other side of the way

with the dullness of the houses

Everybody kno like the street the two dinner-rows of people who

take their stand by the street will be The expressionless unifor at in the same form, all

approachable by the sa, all with the same impracticable fire-escapes, the sa without exception

to be taken at a high valuation--who has not dined with these? The

house so drearily out of repair, the occasional bo, the stuccoed

house, the newly-fronted house, the corner house with nothing but

angular rooms, the house with the blinds always down, the house with the

hatchment always up, the house where the collector has called for one

quarter of an Idea, and found nobody at home--who has not dined with