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Identifier: wandererinlondon00luca (find matches)
Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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extractions. After a while I went back to the house and found thelittle wan mother, a wistful but wholly independent child,who was already perplexed enough by offers of help fromkindly aliens in that other London (to say nothing of localmissionaries), but had determined to resume her own life asif nothing had happened. And so I came away, but notbefore her landlord had pitched a tale of his own embarrass-ments that far transcended, to his mind, any difficulty thatthe girl might be in. And then I rode back to London ona bus, behind a second engineer who was taking a Lime-house barmaid to the Tivoli. I believe that an observant loiterer in the Mile End Roadwould bring away a richer harvest than from any street inLondon. There seems to me always to be light there, andit is so wide and open that ones eyes are not worried andperplexed. Here also, and in its continuations, the White-chapel High Street and Aldgate, one can reconstruct thepast almost more easily than anywhere in London. There
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