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Page 52
... London - the shut - up London of Sunday evening - more frightening , be- cause more oppressive , than the thieves ' London of Oliver Twist . " Heaven forgive me , ' said he , ' and those who trained me . How I have hated this day ...
... London - the shut - up London of Sunday evening - more frightening , be- cause more oppressive , than the thieves ' London of Oliver Twist . " Heaven forgive me , ' said he , ' and those who trained me . How I have hated this day ...
Page 69
... London , which has already been presented by Dickens under such a variety of aspects , but which now appears - though with Newgate looming over it as it did in Barnaby Rudge - under an aspect that is new : " A gray dusty withered ...
... London , which has already been presented by Dickens under such a variety of aspects , but which now appears - though with Newgate looming over it as it did in Barnaby Rudge - under an aspect that is new : " A gray dusty withered ...
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... London , where she made a living by teaching music . Her son came to live with her when he was twenty and wrote novels which he was unable to sell and picked up through journalism such money as he could . He remained with his mother ...
... London , where she made a living by teaching music . Her son came to live with her when he was twenty and wrote novels which he was unable to sell and picked up through journalism such money as he could . He remained with his mother ...
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