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The North British Review Volume 8-9
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Author: Books Group
Number of Pages: 518 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/1301/9781130174922.jpg
ISBN: 9781231593578
File size: 40 Mb
File Name: The.North.British.Review.Volume.8-9.pdf
Download Link: The North British Review Volume 8-9
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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. 1848 Excerpt: ...chatting and smoking, all seen by the dusky light of the watch-fires, with the houses high and dark for a background, formed a scene to please a painter's eye. At the fish-market the soldiers had apparently discovered that the stalls on which the fish are exposed for sale made very good bedsteads, and there they reclined, making themselves as comfortable as they could, with their knapsacks for pillows. "Pretty fish you make," we said to one as we went by. "Yes," replied the man good-humouredly, "fish like these" (and he waved his hand towards his comrades) "are not to be found in the market every day." In the Faubourg through which we passed on our way home everything was still. There was not even a patrol. Everything, too, was dark. For a great capital Paris is very ill lighted. The brilliancy of the principal streets in the evening is entirely owing to the illumination of the shops, and when these are closed there is darkness--indeed, the more so from the contrast of the previous hours. We went on through the narrow streets, where there was now no sound save that of our own footfall, and no light, except occasionally, high up in the attics of the tall houses, where some poor needle-woman was still at her painful task, or some hard student burned the midnight oil. But in those dark and silent houses, though we knew it not, there were doubtless many a plotting head and ready hand at work. Many a cartridge was made that night, many a rusty weapon burnished; for if Paris had gone so unexpectedly to apparent rest, it was only to gather strength and material for the next day's struggle, which, whatever we may then have thought, we now know had been resolved on. Asmodeus would have been an invaluable counsellor for Louis-P...

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