6/1/2023 0 Comments The wrong box stevensonAnd yet it had a character of its own, such as may well quicken the pulse of the reader’s curiosity. 7 itself a particularly inviting place of residence. It was not a particularly clean brass plate, nor was No. 7 bore a brass plate inscribed with the legend ‘W. And yet Norfolk Street has one claim to be respectable, for it contains not a single shop-unless you count the public-house at the corner, which is really in the King’s Road. In holiday-time the street is the arena of the young bloods of the neighbourhood, and the householders have an opportunity of studying the manly art of self-defence. An occasional organ-grinder wanders in and wanders out again, disgusted. Dirty, undersized maids-of-all-work issue from it in pursuit of beer, or linger on its sidewalk listening to the voice of love. Norfolk Street, King’s Road-jocularly known among Mr Pitman’s lodgers as ‘Norfolk Island’-is neither a long, a handsome, nor a pleasing thoroughfare. In Which William Dent Pitman takes Legal Advice
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