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Nola bene. On such an occasion at the present day - if it be possible to conceive such an anachronism - the Jew boys above referred to would be probably Christian boys, and the Object of their commerce the evening papers. But I have no recollection of any such element in the scene at the White Horse Cellar some Sixty-eight years since.
Occasionally when a holiday from lessons occurred-i am afraid most probably in consequence of my father being confined to his bed with headaches, which even at that early day, and increasingly, as years went on, afflicted him - we, my brother Henry and I, Obtained permission for a longer ramble. I have no recollection that on these occasions either the parks (unless, perhaps sometimes St. J ames's Park), or Kensington Gardens, or Hampstead, or Highgate, or any Of the places that might be supposed to be attractive, had any attractions for us. Our faces were ever turned eastward. The city with its narrow, mysteri ous lanes, and still more mysterious wharves, its quaint secluded churches, its Guildhall, and its Gog and Magog.
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