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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... to resist all such extortioners; it is not necessary to be rude to them (' the Court, ' if the case proceeds, does not approve of that); instead of saying outright, 'Go to the devil, ' use a synonym: refer them to a solicitor. In a few years I knew my London better than most cockneys born. On one occasion I compared my own experiences of it with those of Dickens. He told me in his graphic and dramatic way some amazing things, with some of which I, in my time, though with far inferior powers of narration, have occasionally thrilled a select audience. In return for his gold I had only silver to offer him, but I remember that the following incident, which once happened to me, interested him very much. I was returning home one summer night through a fashionable street out of Piccadilly, when there came on a violent thunder storm. It was very late, not a cab was to be seen, and I stepped under a portico for shelter. There was a ball going on in one of the great houses in the street; the drawing-room had a huge bow window, which was open, and now and again figures flitted across it, and the dance-music made itself heard through the storm. I had been under my shelter some time before I noticed that there was another person in the street, also under a portico. He was nearer to the house where the ball was going on than I was, but I could see him quite distinctly. He looked like a beggar and was dressed in rags. Suddenly he ran across the street in the pouring rain and stood beneath the open window, at which appeared some lady in a ball dress; she threw out to him her bouquet, the gilt handle of which I saw glitter in the gas light. He strove to catch it, but it fell, and I heard it clang upon the pavement. He picked it up, nodded twice to the lady at the window, an...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154246537 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154246531 |
| Weight | 1.41 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.97 In |
| List Price | $32.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 438 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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