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Page 68
... window in the front and back , and look out . Here is Washington , fresh in my mind and under my eye . Take the worst parts of the City Road and Pentonville , or the straggling outskirts of Paris , where the houses are smallest ...
... window in the front and back , and look out . Here is Washington , fresh in my mind and under my eye . Take the worst parts of the City Road and Pentonville , or the straggling outskirts of Paris , where the houses are smallest ...
Page 69
... window , and look across the road upon a long , straggling row of houses , one story high , terminating , nearly opposite , but a little to the left , in a melancholy piece of waste ground with frowzy grass , which looks like a small ...
... window , and look across the road upon a long , straggling row of houses , one story high , terminating , nearly opposite , but a little to the left , in a melancholy piece of waste ground with frowzy grass , which looks like a small ...
Page 216
... window on the cliff overhanging the sea - beach , I have the sky and ocean framed before me like a beautiful picture . A beautiful picture , but with such movement in it , such changes of light upon the sails of ships and wake of steam ...
... window on the cliff overhanging the sea - beach , I have the sky and ocean framed before me like a beautiful picture . A beautiful picture , but with such movement in it , such changes of light upon the sails of ships and wake of steam ...
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