It’s your first evening, and early impressions do count for
so much. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. In
doing so, he had to clamber up the immense heap of bricks and rubbish which
now littered the floor, amounting almost to a car-load, and reaching up nearly to
the top of the chimney-piece. ‘I do not know the word in English. ”
“I thought so,” Courtlaw said. These were less like streets than labyrinths,
hewn through an eternal twilight. Smith obeyed. All
the world about her seemed to be—how can one put it?—in wrappers, like a
house when people leave it in the summer. "Precisely. “I knew Mr. It
reverberated in the silence. ”
“What?” He asked. The ticket line filtered slowly into the glass doors,
growing louder and more boisterous by the minute.
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