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A VISIT TO AN UNFASHIONABLE LOCALITY. 41
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"been temporarily inconvenienced by the suspension of traffic in that particular neighborhoodconsequent upon work eventually to be of
, public benefit , but perhaps the public are little aware that what is simply inconvenience to them , is positive loss to the " Association "
and the poor afflicted ones dependent upon it . Goods are still manufactured , but chance customers and regular customers _aro
alike wanting to purchase them now that the thoroughfare is blockaded .
But to return to my own visit and the difficulty with which it was accomplished .
Interested , as I have already said , hy the account given in . _JtfacmiUanj which served to revive certain faded memories of a
similar article hy an unknown hand , I had already resolved that , when opportunity should present itself , I would visit the Institution .
A letter from , _sl friend— -coming strangely enough whilst still haunted hy that one word" Blind "—urging meif possible , to "do something
, , towards helping the blind to help themselves , " made me resolve not to wait for an opportunity , but rather to make one as soon as
possible . Thus it was , that on a fine , sunny , winter ' s morning , I set out , resolved to explore theto meunfamiliar neighborhood of
, , Euston Road . * Euston Road was at one time connected indissolubly in . my mind
with the omnibuses that were wont to convey me to school , but from such a very different quarter of the metropolis , that I had nothing
to guide me in my present peregrination . The account given by various Mends of the distance from Euston Road , and my best way
to get to it , were so alarmingly diversified , that I started with . a very vague notion on both subjects . A cab was suggested by
some as the easiest solution of the difficulty , but I do not affect cabs , any more than omnibusesunless driven into them by stress
of weather ; and being altogether , ignorant on that most important point , the cab fare , without which knowledge I am habitually an
easy prey to extortionate drivers—for these and other reasons I resolved to trust to my feet and my tongue for discovering and
arriving at the desired spot . , So I walked bravely and resolutely on till I thought it just
possible that I might have reached that indefinite Euston Road , which , according to my Mendsseemed to begin anywhereand end
nowhere . , , No , it was not yet the Euston Road , but I was in the right
direction for one leading into Marylebone Road , and that , if I went " ?¦ str On aig and ht on on in would ite lead of the me eventuall mud and y of into those the Euston obstructions Road .
con-, , sp nected with the underground railway , which do not tend to the comfort of the pedestrians and which were then in progress—on
desperately , resolved not to turn back , come what would , till I was
/ means * Euston difficult Road of access is part , althoug of what h distant was formerl for residents y the New in Road Belgravia , and . is by no
A Visit To An Unfashionable Locality. 41
A VISIT TO AN UNFASHIONABLE LOCALITY . 41
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 41, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/41/
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