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Beaus is scarcely the place one would choose in which to

spend a suh they reach unto the heavens, they are,

like reat city in

all their nooks and corners, and the noise of the crowded life

penetrates even to the topination and unlis is "situated in a fashionable locality";

but though Fashion es soh the street in which the Buildings tower, the

street is a grimy and rather squalid one, in which most of the houses are

shops--shops of the cheap and useful kind which cater for the poor

There is always a noise and a blare in Beaumont Street The butcher not

only displays his joints and "block ornaments" outside his shop, but

proclairocer and

fruiterer and fish beside their barrows froht

The smells of Beaumont Street are innumerable, and like unto the sea

shells for variety; and the scent of oranges, the pungent odor of fried

fish, froue smell familiar

to all ell in the heart of London, rise and enter the open