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... Street --A Walk about Town - The Contrast , CHAPTER XIII . Mr Bindwell - The Approval - A Mishap - News from Home , CHAPTER XIV . Punctuality - The Porter and the Apprentice - Guy's First Entry into Business , CHAPTER XV . Mr Bindwell's ...
... Street --A Walk about Town - The Contrast , CHAPTER XIII . Mr Bindwell - The Approval - A Mishap - News from Home , CHAPTER XIV . Punctuality - The Porter and the Apprentice - Guy's First Entry into Business , CHAPTER XV . Mr Bindwell's ...
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... streets , and found himself amongst the awakening bustle of the place , he controlled his emotions , and walked stur- dily on . On reaching the High Street , nearly opposite the Town Hall , he could not help stopping for a few moments ...
... streets , and found himself amongst the awakening bustle of the place , he controlled his emotions , and walked stur- dily on . On reaching the High Street , nearly opposite the Town Hall , he could not help stopping for a few moments ...
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... street con- stituting the main thoroughfare of the old city , it was past two o'clock . The savoury smell issuing from a cook - shop , the window of which was occasionally quite obscured by the unctuous steam that came rushing up from ...
... street con- stituting the main thoroughfare of the old city , it was past two o'clock . The savoury smell issuing from a cook - shop , the window of which was occasionally quite obscured by the unctuous steam that came rushing up from ...
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... street , for he had seen the name written up at the corner as he came down ; and it was the right number , too ; for not only did he perfectly well remember that it was 16 , but it was so put in the address on the little pencilled note ...
... street , for he had seen the name written up at the corner as he came down ; and it was the right number , too ; for not only did he perfectly well remember that it was 16 , but it was so put in the address on the little pencilled note ...
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... mother's brother ; so he wrote with a pencil on a little scrap of paper , " Good - bye , uncle , I'm off to London . - Your affectionate nephew , Guy Rivers . " Having placed this beneath the street - door , he 74 GUY RIVERS .
... mother's brother ; so he wrote with a pencil on a little scrap of paper , " Good - bye , uncle , I'm off to London . - Your affectionate nephew , Guy Rivers . " Having placed this beneath the street - door , he 74 GUY RIVERS .
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Guy Rivers, Or a Boy's Struggles in the Great World (Classic Reprint) Alfred Elwes No preview available - 2016 |
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