1 Do nothing of the sort, mother.
2 Her boots are much the worse for wear.
3 The church clock strikes the first quarter.
4 I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb.
5 He takes the place left vacant by the daughter's retirement.
6 He is in the same plight as Freddy, very wet about the ankles.
7 , come from the elderly staid spectators, who pat her comfortingly.
8 He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet around the ankles.
9 If Freddy had a bit of gumption, he would have got one at the theatre door.
10 They'll take away my character and drive me on the streets for speaking to gentlemen.
11 She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty.
12 I've been to Charing Cross one way and nearly to Ludgate Circus the other; and they were all engaged.
13 An elderly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella.
14 Freddy rushes in out of the rain from the Southampton Street side, and comes between them closing a dripping umbrella.
15 She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed.
16 They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.
17 Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
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