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The window on the ground-floor was arched, as in the other dwellings
at this end of the street, and within stood an artistic arrangement
of wax fruit under a glass shade, supported by a heavy volume of
Biblical appearance. The upper storey was graced with a small iron
balcony, on which straggled a few flower-pots. However, the exterior
of this abode was, by comparison, promising; the curtains and blinds
were clean, the step was washed and whitened, the brass plate shone,
the panes of glass had at all events acquaintance with a duster. A
few yards in the direction away from the Square, and Tysoe Street
falls under the dominion of dry-rot.
It was not until he set forth to go to work next morning that Sidney
called to mind his conversation with Jane. That the child should
have missed by five minutes a meeting with someone who perchance had
the will and the power to befriend her, seemed to him, in his
present mood, merely an illustration of a vice inherent in the
nature of things. He determined to look in at the public-house of
which she had spoken, and hear for himself what manner of man had
made inquiries for people named Snowdon.
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