London and Elsewhere ...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: at CORNER has a bad name. I re- member a corner in my old town which was so enfamed. If it was reported that a man had][been there, mysterious whispers crept] along the streets, and were excluded only from the old Norman castle, which did duty for the county gaol. I did not know why; but I knew the man was henceforth to be avoided. And I remember, too, on May Eve, and such-like children's celebrations, seeing among happy faces the happy face of one who, I surmised, must have been marked with a brand; for mothers instructed their children to escape herpresence. She appeared to my youthful eyes?and now that she has probably long ceased to vex the world, the poor creature seems to me to have been?a revelation of beauty and grace. But now I know the secret of her exclusion. She was related to the corner. She had an antitype so long ago at least as the days of Solomon, for he describes her as one whose feet " abide not in her own house; now she is without, now in the streets, and she lieth in wait at every corner." Why corners should thus have ill odour, it would be hard to say. Still, there is no denying the sort of reputation they have obtained, and still enjoy. There is the corner adorned with three golden balls, and designed for the benefit of the poor or unfortunate. Whoever enters except stealthily, and with a desire to be unobserved ? The opposite corner was again lately in the market, and fetched a higher price than any equal area inthe street; but nobody is proud to be regarded as a visitor. To put a man in a corner is equivalent to taking him at disadvantage. Here in London there are of course innumerable corners?corners good, bad, and indifferent; but perhaps the most curious of all corners is " The Corner." This is Tattersall's. Lempriere tells us that Tattersa...

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