Identifier: descriptiveportr02king (find matches)
Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sculptured the head of a sounds from the church-towers of theguardian lion. This severely noble city. The man who at one oclocktomb is far more impressive than that of may be found lunching in a modest little EUROPE IX STORM AND CALM. 613 rookery in some hack alley, in a dark,open stall, where there is no cloth uponthe table and where napkins are un-known, sits down to dinner at sevenoclock in his noble country-house, look-ing out upon a splendid lawn, and chicshis evening work in a costly library.Loudon is their rendezvous, and nothingelse. A solicitor will receive you in ahack office simple as that of a Hebrew labor; black care goes home with them,and lurks beside (lie turtle-soup and I hebuttle of old port on their dinner-table.In front of the Mansion House, andpasl the Royal Exchange, and downThreadneedle street,, in the neighbor- 1 1 of the First Bank of England, whose structures cover mure than fouracres, there is a continual rush of teams,carriages, drays, omnibuses, and other
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SATURDAY NIGHT IX WORKMANS QUARTER. retail dealer just beginning business ;but, if he invites you to bring yourpapers to his house, you will find helives like a merchant prince. Every cityman sacrifices about two hours daily ingoing to and from his business. Whenthe trains leave the city in the afternoonthey are crowded with men who arestudying briefs, prospectuses, and memo-randa, which they extract from littleblack bags, placed carefully beside them.One feels that their going into the cityhas been but the beginning of their davs vehicles of almost every description,from early morning until after businesshours ; and through this moving masshundreds of thousands of pedestrianspick their way with the deftness born oflong practice. Near by is Lombardstreet, so called from the old •• Longo-bardi, the rich bankers who settled inthat district of London and grouped theircountrymen around them before thetime of Edward II. There also werethe goldsmiths, who lent money on plateand jewels,

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