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Title: Bird's eye views of society
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder

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accomplifhed, may ceafe to intereft, if they have onlya half confcious and wholly abstracted expreffion of rapidlydoling eye to give in return for your, we will fuppofe,pointed remarks. Looking round the room, we are ftruck with the forlornappearance of the two gentlemen with whifkers near the 39 fire-place. They dont look at eafe. They refemble filliesout of their natural element. Perhaps they dont know anyone. Perhaps they dont know what to fay. There is ayoung gentleman fitting on the edge of the fofa who lookson the point of fummoning up the requifite courage tomake a remark to the lady who fits paflive and patient,waiting the event. One of the company feems to have taken a fuddenintereft in a picture upon the wall; another, wanderingin the far room upon the outfkirts of the affembledgroup in a hopelefs ftate, turns over the leaves of a bookwhich probably would be found upfide down ; a third indefpair, for want of fomething to do, looks at himfelf inthe glafs. Let us pity them. 40
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Rotten Row in the Seafon. Rotten Row.

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