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COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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coffee-house not far from Jubilee Street on the Mile End Road.
"Cawn yer let me 'ave somethin for this, daughter? Anythin', Hi don't mind. Hi 'aven't 'ad a bite the blessed dy, an Hi'm that fynt. . . ."
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Coffee-house near Jubilee Street. |
She was an old woman, clad in decent black rags, and in her hand she held a penny. The one she had addressed as 'daughter' was a care-worn woman of forty, proprietress and waitress of the house.
I waited, possibly as anxiously as the old woman, to see how the appeal would be received. It was
