ENGL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Two Hours Traffic, Overcoat, Salver
20 Oct 2015
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North richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces. The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes, under one of which i found the late tenant"s rusty bicycle-pump.
