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Excerpt from The Heart of a Child: Being Passages From the Early Life of Sally Snape Lady Kidderminster
N Angel Gardens, Limehouse, the spring sun had less opportunity than anywhere else in the whole of London. It was a. Narrow, filthy, ill-paved cul-de-sac. On either side of its foul gutters were tottering, low tenement houses, the fronts bulging, the broken windows filled in with rags or paper, the roofs rotting. There was a swarming life of women and children on doorsteps, and in the roadway ragged, wretched, appallingly dirty. Brooding over all was that close, Oppressive stench which tells of dirt and poverty.
Yet here, on that May day, ten years ago, the organ grinder turned his tune, and, with shoeless feet, or feet worse than shoeless, in men''s boots, carpet slippers, gaping, ragged gear of every description, the draggle tailed children danced. And they danced well, now a reel, now a polka, now a valse, not the latest fashion able variety perhaps, but always in strict time, with never a step missed, and a sense of gaiety and abandonment, amazing to the district visitor, new to her work, and already heart-sick with what she had seen and heard that spring afternoon.
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N Angel Gardens, Limehouse, the spring sun had less opportunity than anywhere else in the whole of London. It was a. Narrow, filthy, ill-paved cul-de-sac. On either side of its foul gutters were tottering, low tenement houses, the fronts bulging, the broken windows filled in with rags or paper, the roofs rotting. There was a swarming life of women and children on doorsteps, and in the roadway ragged, wretched, appallingly dirty. Brooding over all was that close, Oppressive stench which tells of dirt and poverty.
Yet here, on that May day, ten years ago, the organ grinder turned his tune, and, with shoeless feet, or feet worse than shoeless, in men''s boots, carpet slippers, gaping, ragged gear of every description, the draggle tailed children danced. And they danced well, now a reel, now a polka, now a valse, not the latest fashion able variety perhaps, but always in strict time, with never a step missed, and a sense of gaiety and abandonment, amazing to the district visitor, new to her work, and already heart-sick with what she had seen and heard that spring afternoon.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Frank Danby
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ISBN - 9780265202999
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 404
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Frank Danby
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ISBN - 9781331560555
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Page Count - 406
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