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...her great-uncle in India be come home, and want her to make him a visit in London? How delightful! If it had been anybody but Papa, she would have sai... ... I see I must explain a good deal to you. It is the business of a court in London, that is called the Court of Chancery, to provide that proper care i... ...stand it at once. “Oh yes! we will visit. You shall all come and see me in London, and see the Zoological Gardens and the British Mu- seum; and I will... ...nt, and thank her for her kind letter; and say that I will bring you up to London on the day she names, without troubling the gov- erness and the butl... ... DAYS passed very slowly with Kate, until the moment when she was to go to London and take her state upon her, as she thought. Till that should come t... ...he verses and gum in the drawings. “Please, Aunt Barbara, let me go to the Soho Bazaar to- day?” “I cannot take you there, I have an engagement.” “But... ...ring of the glasses. Just suppose she saw anyone she knew! But they got to Soho Square at last; and through the glass door, in among the stalls—that f...

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...the King’s Road. There was a new amusement for him, a fresher bustle, in a London walk in the morning; these were hours that he habitually spent at hi... ...ay by the bustle of the departing boat. He had been long enough shut up in London to be conscious of refreshment in the mere act of turning his face t... ...rink deep of these things, drain the cup like a man who hasn’t been out of London for months and months. Let me walk with you and talk with you and lu... ... of Bohemia, in their deadly respectable lives, to a jolly little place in Soho. Mrs. Ryves declined to have her life abused, but in fact, at the prop...

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...f manner, said of her: ‘She is a smart woman.’ She had just come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a s... ... one of the school-inspectors of the county. But Gudrun had met others, in London. Moving with her artist friends in different kinds of society, Gudru... ...HE TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN ONE DAY at this time Birkin was called to London. He was not very fixed in his abode. He had rooms in Nottingham, bec... ...Nottingham, because his work lay chiefly in that town. But often he was in London, or in Oxford. He moved about a great deal, his life seemed uncertai... ...approaching with hand outstretched. ‘Hallo, Rupert, where are you going?’ ‘London. So are you, I suppose.’ ‘Yes—’ Gerald’s eyes went over Birkin’s fac... ...sking, ‘Where are you staying in London?’ Birkin looked up. ‘With a man in Soho. I pay part of the rent of a flat, and stop there when I like.’ ‘Good ...

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...essions of an English Opium- Eater by Thomas De Quincey The first edition (London Magazine) text. 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition. Confessions ... ...nglish Opium-Eater: Being an Estract from the Life of a Scholar. From the “London Magazine” for September 1821. T T T T TO O O O O THE READER THE READ... ... me that it was not in- correct. I will mention two. (1) Three respectable London druggists, in widely remote quarters of London, from whom I happened... ...icide, occasioned them daily trouble and disputes. This evidence respected London only. But (2)— 6 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater which will p... ...business for cottagers who hap- pened to have relatives in Liverpool or in London; more of- ten I wrote love-letters to their sweethearts for young wo... ... more than usually ill and faint, I requested her to turn off with me into Soho Square. Thither we went, and we sat down on the steps of a house, whic...

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...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...ff, exceedingly flurried and nervous. Miss Sedley’s papa was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil,... ...fficulty that he could keep himself, and as he owed money for a mile round Soho, where he lived, he thought to better his circumstances by marrying a ... ...e; and she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was... ...mbo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her father an... ...ent to him in his native country. He did not live with his family while in London, but had lodgings of his own, like a gay young bachelor. Before he w... ...ies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the...

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... soon convinced that he had been deceived; and, therefore, after a stay in London of five days only, he returned to the place from whence he came.’ Dr... ...pect to his private conduct, from any man alive. When M’Namara returned to London, and reported the prince’s answer to the gentlemen who had employed ... ...oth. This same methodical Samuel Griffiths, of Ironmonger Lane, Guildhall, London, whose letter arrives as duly as quarter-day, has sent me, as I told... ...om I had for- merly distinguished) called out to me, in an abrupt manner, ‘Soho, brother! you are too late for Bowness to-night—the tide will make pre... ... warning, so strangely conveyed, with the caution impressed on you by your London correspondent, Griffiths, against your visiting England—with the cha... ... the docket and sum total), but also by the worthy Mr. Samuel Griffiths of London, being the hand through whom the remittances were made, I may, in so...

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.............................................................. 276 ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES ............................................................. ...via is she who has surprised my heart; But he is more than half-way there.—Soho! Livia, I come; good sport, Livia, soho! [Exit.] CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYP... ...the most zealous to teach. Thus is formed one-tenth of the popu- lation of London: meanwhile the evil is twofold. Young men, excluded by the fanatical... ... n’est-elle pas la plus evidente et a plus claire?—”Systeme de la Nature”, London, 1781. The enlightened and benevolent Pliny thus publicly pro- fesse... ...ard that a poem entitled “Queen Mab” has been surreptitiously published in London, and that legal proceed- ings have been instituted against the publi... ... natty a Beau As Bond-street ever saw. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. He sate him down, in London town, _10 Before earth’s morning ...

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...ABLE CONVERSATION, AND SOME REMARKABLE PROCEEDINGS TO WHICH IT GIVES RISE ‘LONDON AT LAST!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his great- coat and rousing ... ... emphasis. They rattled on through the noisy , bustling, crowded street of London, now displaying long double rows of brightly- burning lamps, dotted ... ...side by side; repletion and starvation laid them down together. But it was London; and the old country lady inside, who had put her head out of the co... ...or some six or eight year, and then it stopped. He had given an address in London, had this chap; but when it came to the point, of course nobody know... ...pted me into an avowal, which, to any other stranger in this wilderness of London, I should not have dreamt of making,’ returned Nicholas. ‘Wilderness... ...alf-hour into that labyrinth of streets which lies between Seven Dials and Soho, without 404 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY emerging in...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis h...

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...EDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment and quite resolved to have things ... ... corncob pipes in the Avenue on Sun- day morning, travelled third class to London by unusual trains, and openly despised golf. He occupied one of the ... ...pend what- ever vestiges of the night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a select party in “quite a decent little ... ...f the night with Widgett’s ramshackle girls in some indescribable hotel in Soho! He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situation... ...elf in some arrangement with the Widgett girls about a Fancy Dress Ball in London. I gather you wish to go up in some fantastic get-up, wrapped about ... ...n inadvertent, casual manner just as he was leaving the house to catch his London train. When Ann Veronica got it she had at first a wild, fantastic i... ... came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and... ...alian or semi-Bohemian 130 Ann Veronica restaurant in the district toward Soho, or in one of the more stylish and magnificent establishments about Pi...

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...ar, November the thir- tieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesse... ...ndon Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their metallic throats. Some, flippantly begin befor... ..., the first Sunday in October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. London Time by the great clock of Saint Paul’s, half-past one in the aftern... ...out looking back. ACT I THE CURTAIN RISES I n a court-yard in the City of London, which was No Thoroughfare either for vehicles or foot-pas sengers;... ...tly— ”Obenreizer. ‘—Of specially commanding to you M. Jules Obenreizer, of Soho Square, London (north side), henceforth fully accredited as our agent,... ...sently afterwards to the address of M. Jules Obenreizer. As he turned into Soho Square, and directed his steps to- wards its north side, a deepened co... ...ntaineers has long been enclosed within that small flat London district of Soho. Swiss watch- makers, Swiss silver-chasers, Swiss jewellers, Swiss imp... ...these diverse Swiss particles are attracted to a centre in the district of Soho. Shabby Swiss eating-houses, coffee-houses, and lodging-houses, Swiss ... ...ue of most of my countrymen, now in trade in this your Lon- don quarter of Soho. Peasants once; low-born drudging Swiss Peasants. Then how good and gr...

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...earance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock lane ghost had been laid only a round... ...magnificent potentate, the Lord Mayor A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 4 of London, was made to stand and deliver on T urnham Green, by one highwayman,... ...spoiled the illustrious creature in sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law... ...to apprehend. I belong to T ellson’s Bank. You must know Tellson’s Bank in London. I am going to Paris on business. A crown to drink. I may read this?... ... LODGINGS OF D OCTOR M ANETTE were in a quiet street corner not far from Soho square. On the afternoon of a certain fine Sunday when the waves of fo... ...ny part of his life. On this certain fine Sunday, Mr. Lorry walked towards Soho, early in the afternoon, for three reasons of habit. Firstly, because,... ..., in the now vanished fields. As a consequence, country airs circulated in Soho with A Tale of Two Cities – Dickens 83 vigorous freedom, instead of l... ...oss’s friendship being of the thoroughly prac tical kind, she had ravaged Soho and the adjacent provinces, in search of impoverished French, who, tem... ...age to Clerkenwell. There were solitary patches of road on the way between Soho and Clerkenwell, and Mr. Lorry, mindful of foot pads, al ways retaine...

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...e came from Devonshire and, notwith- standing her many years of service in London, had never lost the breadth of her accent. Her tears increased her e... ...hen the news came that his sister-in-law was dying, he set off at once for London, but on the way thought of nothing but the disturbance in his life t... ...ey arrived, he was resigned and cheerful. Blackstable was sixty miles from London. Giv- ing their luggage to a porter, Mr. Carey set out to walk with ... ...s and on Sun- days, and on special occasions, as when the Vicar went up to London or came back. The traffic of the house took place through a side-doo... ... seizing her hand there and then to cover it with kisses. LX THEY DINED IN SOHO. Philip was tremulous with joy . It was not one of the more crowded of... ...the agony no longer . After dinner one evening in the little restaurant in Soho, to which now they often went, he spoke to her. “I say , did you mean ... ... summer comes along,” he said, as they drove along on the top of a ‘bus to Soho—she had herself sug- gested that they should not be so extravagant as ... ...89 W. Somerset Maugham They were old customers at the little restaurant in Soho by now, and the patronne gave them a smile as they came in. The waiter... ...ch delighted Philip. She asked him to take her to the little restaurant in Soho to which they had so often been; he was infinitely grateful to her, be...

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...existed in large quantities be- fore the era of reconstruction dawned upon London. The shop was a square box of a place, with the front glazed in smal... ...He came and went without any very apparent reason. He generally arrived in London (like the in- fluenza) from the Continent, only he arrived unheralde... ...rprised her. The change from the Belgravian square to the narrow street in Soho affected her legs adversely. They be- came of an enormous size. On the... ... a woman’s face and hat emerging above the folded hood. And a pecu- liarly London sun—against which nothing could be said ex- cept that it looked bloo... ...ixty yards away, and Mr V erloc, cosmopolitan enough not to be deceived by London’s topographical mys- teries, held on steadily, without a sign of sur... ...er highly efficient authority is charged with the duty of keeping track of London’s strayed houses. Why powers are not asked of Parliament (a short ac... ...istant Commissioner, driven rapidly in a han som from the neighbourhood of Soho in the direction of Westminster, got out at the very centre of the Em-...

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...ng the hollows that run dipping for miles beside the great highroad toward London. Sometimes his father whistled to him, or held him high and nodded a... ... the open street?— Where did my mother live?—What was I doing out alone in London?’ were so many incitements to autobiographical com- position to an i... ... At once my tongue was unloosed. I seemed to rise right above the roofs of London, beneath which I had been but a wandering atom a few minutes ago. I ... ... to my grandfa- ther at Riversley, and communicated with the constables in London; and, by-and-by, Mrs. Waddy arrived, having like- wise visited those... ... day in different conveyances, the last of which landed us miles away from London, at the gates of an old drooping, mossed and streaked farmhouse, tha... ...ndication of the house where the ceremony took place was stated—a house in Soho;—the date was given, and the incident on that night of the rape of the...

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...profound bow to his patrons, the Man- ager retires, and the curtain rises. London, June 28, 1848 Chapter I Chiswick Mall WHILE THE PRESENT CENTURY was... ...ff, exceedingly flurried and nervous. Miss Sedley’s papa was a merchant in London, and a man of some wealth; whereas Miss Sharp was an articled pupil,... ...fficulty that he could keep himself, and as he owed money for a mile round Soho, where he lived, he thought to better his circumstances by marrying a ... ...e; and she looked back to the freedom and the beggary of the old studio in Soho with so much regret, that everybody, herself included, fancied she was... ...mbo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her father an... ...ent to him in his native country. He did not live with his family while in London, but had lodgings of his own, like a gay young bachelor. Before he w... ...ies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor’s door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the...

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...n ery or associations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club, sta tioned in London. ‘That this Association cordially recognises the principle of every ... ...ved one of the covers. ‘Soles, Sir.’ ‘Soles—ah!—capital fish—all come from London stage coach proprietors get up political dinners—carriage of soles—... ...’t make an impression in public assemblies—incog. the thing—gentlemen from London—distinguished foreign ers—anything.’ The door was thrown open, and ... ...arles Dickens 33 vented—the proposed uniform, Sir, of the Pickwick Club in London. The honour of that uniform I feel bound to maintain, and I therefor... ...ling in the provinces, and he had been skulking in the lanes and alleys of London. I was dressed to leave the house, and was crossing the stage on my ... ...use we come to we’ll put up at, so the faster you go the sooner it’s over. Soho, old girl— gently—gently.” ‘Whether the vixenish mare was sufficiently...

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... LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE E E E E Alexander Pope was born in Lombard Street, London, on the 21st of May 1688—the year of the Revolution. His fa- ther wa... ...ad he was severely flogged. His father, offended at this, removed him to a London school, kept by a Mr Deane. This man taught the poet nothing; but hi... ...kept by a Mr Deane. This man taught the poet nothing; but his residence in London gave him the opportunity of attending the theatres. With these he wa... ...and exhorted him to aim at accuracy and elegance. When fifteen, he visited London, in order to acquire a more thorough knowledge of French and Italian... ...rendered him independent for life. While at Binfield, he had often visited London; and there, in the society of Howe, Garth, Parnell, and the rest, us... ...ice, line trunks, or fluttering in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho. THE SECOND EP THE SECOND EP THE SECOND EP THE SECOND EP THE SECOND EP...

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... “Tell us about yourself, Mr. Sisson,” she said. “How do you like being in London?” 59 D. H. Lawrence “I like London,” said Aaron. Where did he live?... ...,” said Lilly. “Yes,” she cried. “Don’t you hate it, the house we live in— London—England—America! Don’t you hate them?” “I don’t like them. But I can... ...eral fellows were drunk, shouting and crowing. Down there in the bowels of London, after midnight, everything seemed horrible and unnatural. “How I ha... ...after midnight, everything seemed horrible and unnatural. “How I hate this London,” said Tanny. She was half Nor- wegian, and had spent a large part o... ...ARE GARDEN JOSEPHINE had invited Aaron Sisson to dinner at a restaurant in Soho, one Sunday evening. They had a corner to them- selves, and with a bot... ... seemed dark and de- serted, dark like a savage wilderness in the heart of London. The wind was roaring in the great bare trees of the centre, as if i...

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...script, together with the bulk of my li brary, was packed and stored at a London repository, and was not again seen by me until last summer, when I u... ...nd sought it far and near, through green country paths, and old streets of London; but in vain. Then they sent messen gers to see whether any traces ... ...he had a right to such knowledge. “Here is mine, on a respectable house in London.” The W arden took it, and glanced it over with a slight apolo geti... ...to see some luggage which two or three days before Edward had ordered from London, on finding that his stay in this part of the country was likely to ... ...d for private circulation, and with the Warden’s name on the title page; a London newspaper of the preceding day; Lillebullero, Chevy Chase, and the o... ..., saw a figure before him which he recognized as that of the pensioner. 1 “Soho! whither go you, old friend?” said the W arden, draw ing his bridle a...

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...welt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHAELMAS TERM lately over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in... ...h from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting to convey you to our offe ... ...nd when I had cooled my eyes with lavender water, it was time to watch for London. I was quite persuaded that we were there when we were ten miles off... ...scarcely anything was to be seen. “Oh, dear no, miss,” he said. “This is a London particular.” I had never heard of such a thing. “A fog, miss,” said ... ...can’t say I know where it is, for I come from Winchester and am strange in London.” “Only round the corner,” said Mr. Guppy. “We just twist up Chancer... ...ng talk, but it always came back to that, in substance. At last we came to Soho Square, where Caddy Jellyby had appointed to wait for me, as a quiet p...

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...out as you were in Lon- don. I am not your uncle, I know you not.” “My uncle,” replied Mordaunt, with his harsh and ban- tering tone, “you are mistake... ...ely, my uncle, I am sure, and you will soon be of my opinion,” added he, with a smile which sent a shudder through the veins of him he thus addressed.... ...lready shown D’Artagnan, “take this dispatch and carry it to England.” D’Artagnan looked at the envelope; there was no ad- dress on it. “Am I not to k... ...y.” “So!” thought the lieutenant, “’tis to General Cromwell that our dispatches are addressed.” “Have you no letter for him?” asked the young man. “I ... ...unt, walked with him upon the deck and invented a hundred stories to make him talk. Musqueton was seasick. Chapter 55 The Scotchman. AND NOW OUR READE... ...d Aramis, will you remain with this man while we go around to Grimaud?” Grimaud had made himself a kind of sentry box out of a hollow willow, and as t...

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...welt upon the romantic side of familiar things. 1853 CHAPTER I In Chancery LONDON. M ICHAELMAS TERM lately over, and the Lord Chancel lor sitting in... ...h from Reading, on Monday morning next, to White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, London, where one of our clks will be in waiting to convey you to our offe ... ...nd when I had cooled my eyes with lavender water, it was time to watch for London. I was quite persuaded that we were there when we were ten miles off... ...scarcely anything was to be seen. “Oh, dear no, miss,” he said. “This is a London particular.” I had never heard of such a thing. “A fog, miss,” said ... ...can’t say I know where it is, for I come from Winchester and am strange in London.” “Only round the corner,” said Mr. Guppy. “We just twist up Chancer... ...ng talk, but it always came back to that, in substance. At last we came to Soho Square, where Caddy Jellyby had appointed to wait for me, as a quiet p...

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...hard for a European to compute. The flying city of Laputa moored for a fortnight in St. James’s Park affords but a pale figure of the Casco anchored b... ... in the caves of old. And yet to be just to barbarous islanders we must not forget the slums and dens of our cities; I must not forget that I have pas... ...rt Louis Stevenson worth a dollar in itself; but the bulletin about my friend in England proved, some six months later, when I got my mail, to have be... ... the bottom, and applied a match: it was one of Bryant and May’s. The flame was slow to catch, and the irreverent sorcerer filled in the time with tal... ... to land under the foolscap of St. Paul’s; to be domesticated within the hail of Lillie Bridge; there to be dusted by the British housemaid, and to ta...

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... of En gland. Mr. Allworthy had been absent a full quarter of a year in London, on some very particular business, though I know not what it was; bu... ...isfied with the truth of the reconciliation. The doctor went directly to London, where he died soon after of a broken heart; a distemper which kills... ... LIES, IN EXPECTATION OF A JOYFUL RISING, THE BODY OF CAPTAIN JOHN BLIFIL. LONDON HAD THE HONOUR OF HIS BIRTH, OXFORD OF HIS EDUCATION. HIS PARTS WERE... ...mbling the attitude in which we often see fellows in the public streets of London, who are not suffering but deserving punishment by so standing. He h... ...None of these were then abroad, but Mrs. Blifil, who had been some time in London, and Mr. Jones, whom the reader hath just parted from at Mr. Western... ... same manner as if he had been beating for a hare; and at last cried out, “Soho! Puss is not far off. Here’s her form, upon my soul; I believe I may c...

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...ss was an attorney of no very good repute, from Bevis Marks in the city of London; he was a tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen, a protruding for... ...L Q UILP OF T OWER H ILL, and Sampson Brass of Bevis Marks in the city of London, Gentleman, one of her Majesty’s attornies of the Courts of the King... ...om the crowds that were cantering about, what sum of money was realised in London, in the course of a year, by holding horses alone. And undoubtedly i... ...for the present nearly at his feet—might feel at last that he was clear of London. Near such a spot as this, and in a pleasant field, the old man and ... ... long way’—replied the child; for her grand father appealed to her. ‘From London?’ inquired the old man. The child said yes. Ah! He had been in Londo... ...oft knock; and, by your leave, my lady, I may yet steal upon you unawares. Soho!’ A very low and gentle rap received no answer from within. But after ...

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...E CLUB STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE CREAM TARTS DURING HIS RESIDENCE in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of... ...to a low humour, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theatres, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those fi... ...ting upon a nearer acquaintance. There was nothing present but the lees of London and the commonplace of disre- spectability; and the Prince had alrea... ...t, and signified his readiness for supper. In a small French restaurant in Soho, which had enjoyed an exaggerated reputation for some little while, bu... ...o enable me to squander money in Paris with almost the same facility as in London. In short, I am a per- son full of manly accomplishments. I have had... ...mersmith, is the very soul of ingenuity. For three years he has pursued in London his useful and, I think I may add, his artistic calling; and not so ...

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... on which to rest an action for libel; another, has meditated a journey to London, for the express purpose of committing an assault and battery on his... ...per annum. There are people enough in the world, Heaven knows! and even in London (where Mr Nickleby dwelt in those days) but few complaints prevail, ... ...ph Nickleby, who had been some time before placed in a mercantile house in London, ap- plied himself passionately to his old pursuit of money-getting,... ...h an air of 15 Charles Dickens abstraction through the dirty window. Some London houses have a melancholy little plot of ground behind them, usually ... ... which struck an inexperienced observer at first sight. ‘I am going to the London Tavern this morning,’ said Mr Nickleby. ‘Public meeting?’ inquired N... ...alf-hour into that labyrinth of streets which lies between Seven Dials and Soho, without emerging into any large thoroughfare, that Nicholas began to ...

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...fusion. There is above six Thou- sand Pounds’ worth of Furniture come from London to be put up when the rooms are completely finished; and then, woe b... ...nstance, under date of 26th May 1816, is part of a mythological account of London, with a moral for the three gentlemen, ‘Messieurs Alan, Robert, and ... ...owns, there are many bad men here as well as many good men. The natives of London are in general not so tall and strong as the people of Edinburgh, be... ...ive, admirably skilled in his trade, and a man incapable of fear. Once, in London, he fell among a gang of confidence-men, naturally deceived by his r... ... to Barra Head or Monach, the Island of the Monks. They are far- ther from London than St. Petersburg, and except for the towers, sounding and shining... ...e visited by Mr. Murdoch, junior, from Messrs. Boulton and Watt’s works of Soho. He landed just as the bell rung for prayers, after which the writer e...

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...hese rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London. The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriv... ...e such a scandal out of this as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other. If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that... ...e closed the by-street was very solitary and, in spite of the low growl of London from all round, very silent. Small sounds carried far; domestic soun... ...propos, you should have my address.” And he gave a num- ber of a street in Soho. “Good God!” thought Mr. Utterson, “can he, too, have been thinking of... ...s; and Utterson himself was wont to speak of it as the pleasantest room in London. But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat ... ...ylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths. The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternl... ...present whereabouts, not a whisper. From the time he had left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder, he was simply blotted out; and gradually... ...ara- tions with the most studious care. I took and furnished that house in Soho, to which Hyde was tracked by the police; and engaged as a housekeeper... ...as, that I had not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the little room in Soho where I was accustomed to sleep in the body of Ed- ward Hyde. I smiled...

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...infants of the three kingdoms, which, in those days, both at Dublin and at London, were provided for in found- ling hospitals, by cooking and eating t... ...g days, under some groundless notion that the unknown murderer had quitted London, the panic which had convulsed the mighty metropolis diffused itself... ...over the island. I was myself at that time nearly three hundred miles from London; but there, and everywhere, the panic was indescribable. One lady, m... ...bably nothing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful London murderer. Meantime... ...don murderer. Meantime, this solitary artist, that rested in the centre of London, self-supported by his own conscious grandeur, as a domestic Attila,... ...reland. Thence I went by the very shortest road (i.e. through Moor-street, Soho— for I am learned in many quarters of London) towards a point which ne...

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...age will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beau... ...per, and strung on sticks, and roasted over the fire, in simple style of the London cat’s meat! The wine was Golden Mediasch, which produces a queer... ...ent in the life of a solicitor’s clerk sent out to explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner? Solicitor’s clerk! Mina would not like th... ...citor’s clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor, for just before leaving London Chapter 2 20 I got word that my examination was successful, and I... ...life and customs and manners. There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the Arm... ...yment of Harris & Sons, Moving and Shipment Com pany, Orange Master’s Yard, Soho. “I shall report to you any matter of interest occurring here, and...

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...em per hour, and they had all been undone, But for the maker, Mr. Mann, of London. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto Two” 48 As day advanced the weather... ...rgin of a nuptial chime; Soft words, too, fitted for the peroration Of Londonderry drawling against time, Ending in ‘ischskin, ’ ‘ousckin, ’ ‘... ...ength descried In this plain pair, Suwarrow and his guide. ‘Great joy to London now!’ says some great fool, When London had a grand illuminati... ...ted city, Where thousand loves, and ties, and duties grew? Cockneys of London! Muscadins of Paris! Just ponder what a pious pastime war is. ... ...d you seek to know The import of this diplomatic phrase, Bid Ireland’s Londonderry’s Marquess show His parts of speech; and in the strange d... ..., chariot, luggage, baggage, equipage! Wheels whirl from Carlton palace to Soho, And happiest they who horses can engage; The turnpikes glow w...

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...lf a mile south was the little town of Wiltstoken, accessible by rail from London in 24 Cashel Byron’s Profession about two hours. Most of the inhabi... ... Con- tinent with her father, and ceased to hold any correspon- dence with London. Her aunts declared themselves deeply hurt, and Lydia was held to ha... ...Academy.” “I have been at the Academy,” said Alice, who had made a trip to London once. “Indeed!” said Lydia. “Were you in the National Gallery?” “The... ...it’s no use; I can’t go about with my fists like a nigger’s. I’ll go up to London to- morrow and buy a pair of gloves.” “What! Real gloves? Wearin’ gl... ...el Byron’s Profession walk straight home. She had heard of a bookseller in Soho who had for sale a certain scarce volume which she wanted; and it occu... ...ope that she did not know better than Lon- don. She had an impression that Soho was a region of quiet streets and squares, like Bloomsbury. Her mistak... ...f I may take the liberty of asking, how did you come to be walk- ing round Soho at such an hour with a little ragged boy?” Lydia explained. When she f... ..., I have looked on and seen nothing.” Lydia then narrated her adventure in Soho, and listened with the perfect patience of indifference to his censure... ...r bright, I won’t. I’ll content myself with walking through that street in Soho occasionally. Now I’m off; I know you’re in a hurry to be rid of me. S...

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...erent.” “Yes, naturally.” “For instance, your poor father liked being near London, but I almost think we might move. Would you like that?” “Of course,... ... with reason. English ladies will declare abroad that there are no fogs in London, and Mr. Pembroke, though he would not go to this, was only restrain... ...t slateroofed cottages, row beside row, climbing a shapeless hill. Towards London the sky was yellow. 51 EM Forster “There. That’s better.” She sat d... ...s. More- over, the Union seemed less intimate. It had a faint flavour of a London club; it marked the undergraduate’s nearest approach to the great wo... ...hing in her that he valued. He looked round the restau- rant, which was in Soho and decided that she was incomparable. “At half-past two I call on the... ... on account of the res- taurant. He explained how he came to be pigging in Soho: it was so frightfully convenient and so fright- fully cheap. “Just wh... ...one want to see a good deal of life for writing? There’s life of a sort in Soho,—Un peu de faisan, s’il vows plait.” Agnes also grabbed at the waiter,... ...he sociale. His sis- ter, for instance, would never have been lured into a Soho restaurant—except for the experience of the thing. Tilliard’s couche s... ...ved he was pining for Mrs. Orr. Agnes, when she got back from the lunch in Soho, was told of the plan. She refused to give any opin- ion until she had...

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...nothing that he could use. ‘I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London, in order to fix a date correctly.’ He agonized over his work with t... ...ne must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness of London is not... ...t.’ ‘Why, Sir, you find no man at all intellectual who is willing to leave London: No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for th... ..., Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.’ As he loved London, so he loved a tavern ... ...a varied world, and includes the smoky and swarming courts and highways of London, its stately drawing-rooms, its cheer- ful inns, its shops and marke... ...ier, and Sir John Hawkins. They met at the Turk’s Head, in Gerrard-street, Soho, one evening in every week, at seven, and generally continued their co...

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...ached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, specially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate? Whether Miss Havisham, pr... ...he discovery of the assailant. The Constables, and the Bow Street men from London – for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated poli... ...he way shall be prepared for you, and you can see his son first, who is in London. When will you come to London?” I said (glancing at Joe, who stood l... ...the mean- time. Y ou can take a hackney-coach at the stage-coach office in London, and come straight to me. Understand, that I ex- press no opinion, o... ... I could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might hap- pen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either gre... ...recognized him. 194 Great Expectations He conducted us to Gerrard-street, Soho, to a house on the south side of that street. Rather a stately house o...

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...h year he attended the Manor House school, at Stoke-Newington, a suburb of London. It was the Rev. Dr. Bransby, head of the school, whom Poe so quaint... ...t only the faint glimmer of a milk-and-water way. Our capital city, unlike London or Paris, is not a great central heart from which life and vigor rad... ... thousand, a thousand, a thousand, a thousand. Sing a thousand over again! Soho! — let us sing Long life to our king, Who knocked over a thousand so f... ... — let us sing Long life to our king, Who knocked over a thousand so fine! Soho! — let us roar, He has given us more Red gallons of gore Than all Syri...