The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 81: what you’re looking at

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OF LONDON. | ra) he jeweller’s shop, where he stayed for a few mi- utes, appearing to ask the price of, and to ise everal articles, and then leaving the shop as erson who had completed his purchases, he sot into an elegant carriage which was standing at the door, to which was attached a pair of horses, which could not be equalled for beauty in Londen, even in the unrivalled stables of the Marquis de Rio Santo. He had already reclined upon the silken cushions of his chariot, when the horses started off at a gallop, their course being directed to- ward the fashionable purlieus of the West Kad, CHAPTER X, When he left the counting house of Kdward & Co., Bob Lantern made the best use of his legs and elbows along the muddy foot- pavement of Cheapside, and directed his stepstoward St. Giles’s. This honest and worthy lad, shoved hard against the children in his way, elbowed the women whom he passed ; but if any gentleman hindered his progress, he took good care to make a suffi- ‘Client circuit, cr to creep past him without touch- ing him. Such is the chivalrous custom of the lower class of London blackguards, Bob Lantern skimmed along the houses, and glided through the fog with an agility which his ungraceful form and usually apathetic manner rendered surprising. He ran rapidly over the distance that separates Cornhill from the muddy DA ge . Ncomichooks-com: