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42 A VISIT TO AN UNFASHIONABLE LOCALITY.
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y str upon eets keep on ing either strai hand ght on I had without to thread diverging my way to . more amongst tempting very
merous unaristocratic invitations occup from iers , of bearded the pavement artists , desirous resolutely of declining producing nu a -
all " good provided and cheap with " likeness specimens " of " myself in their on hands , the spot which , the I had said neither artists
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shop no passer appearance in -by fact , seeing , filled of my with belong difficulty brushes ing , , to directed broom any s , Institution me baskets to , mats or , and Association having , a
" any whatever All thing sorts . of of the " useful ornament things al . were In the disp course layed of within my visit , but , however scarcely ,
I found that wreaths in leather-work for baskets were made by blind women , which certainly deserve not to be omitted under this
head Having . made mind to buy goods to a certain amount , but
up my should not having be invested decided upon I had the at first nature some of the difficulty goods in in which making th a at satis sum
-, factory choice . did and Knitted not not profess of woollen first- to rate keep mats qualit a for stock y , drawing in of fact that these -room sort p purposes ar of ticular article blind were ; brushes scarce peop of le ,
also every a descri number ption of , and tiny straw bead or jugs rope and mats baskets , there for were children in profusion , worked ;
on wirewhich looked very gay and attractive . of Having the , last at Keport length of comp the leted Association my purchases the p and leas ant received -spoken a copy wife
her of the over Director the Institution , who served a _proioosition me , asked . to if , which I would I g like ladl to y assented accompany . <
myself I had a not little found of the my way occupants , only to of make the building purchases . , A but door to and see at dark the for of the d immediatel longnarrow ;
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42 A Visit To An Unfashionable Locality.
42 A VISIT TO AN UNFASHIONABLE LOCALITY .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 42, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/42/
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