This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. CHRISSY'S FATHER. HE Millers lived in a street which was almost as much a relic of old times as was the church itself. The fine old houses of the parish--houses which had once been greatly affected by aged nobles and gentle dames who had sons or husbands in durance in the grim Tower hard by--had ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. CHRISSY'S FATHER. HE Millers lived in a street which was almost as much a relic of old times as was the church itself. The fine old houses of the parish--houses which had once been greatly affected by aged nobles and gentle dames who had sons or husbands in durance in the grim Tower hard by--had long since fallen to dry business uses, the stately saloons turned into board-rooms, and the dainty china closets devoted to samples of grain or mineral. And the poor mean lanes of the parish--lanes in which the Great Plague had rioted, and in which conspirators and assassins had lurked--had all entirely disappeared before the demands of commerce, and the increasing value of land. But Shield Street was something between these two, and the security which generally attends a modest medium had protected it. Shield Street and its inhabitants had found place in many parochial records, but none in history. Nobody of particular importance had ever lived there. Its houses had been built for the purposes of trade, and remained to their original uses. They were not the less interesting for this their continuance, only the more clearly indicating the change in times and men, telling, as they did, of days when stalwart apprentices watched their masters' wares, exposed in open booths, and customers could be expected to ascend flights of steps to make slight purchases. A picturesque street was Shield Street, with many pointed gables of varied elevation, for some of its houses were very small and lowly; while others had considerable pretensions, even rising to back and front staircases, though for some generations past these latter had been mostly divided into two occupancies. So Shield Street still remained, but under a perpetual threat of doom. It was a...
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