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"I have not heard Hark! There goes St Paul's tolling twelve"

"And there goes a flash of fire--the first a up into the black darkness"

"They will not do it long Look at the sky, ht sky, of a dull and dingy red color,

except where black and heavy clouds were heaving like angry billows, all

dingy with smoke and streaked with bars of fiery red

"I see! There is a storhers

and uished

shortly, and themselves sent home et jackets"

"And for weeks, almost month, there has not fallen a drop of rain,"

reravely

"A reing

over this devoted city"

"I wonder your lordship renificantly

"It is not so easy leaving it as you think, Mr Ormiston; but I am

to turn my back to it to-morrow for a brief period You are aware, I

suppose, that the court leaves before daybreak for Oxford"

"I believe I have heard so to reain," said the earl,

familiarly, "which will probably be in a week or two Look at that sky,

all black and scarlet; and look at those people--I scarcely thought

there were half the number left alive in London"