State Library of NSW
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(33)Quaint stairways and old-fashioned cupboards and nooks and corners are disclosed to view. Also smoke darkened homely ingles, and shelves.In many of the upper rooms there is a litter of broken beds and furniture and other simple household effectsScattered through the debris of bricks and mortar which covers the damaged tile-paved floors of shops and stalls, are torn and wet-glued volumes of romance and science and art. Of these quite a number bear the dates of years gone and generations forgotten. Some are illustrated with old fashioned wood-cuts.These parts alone are easily read by me. But the letter-press being in French is more difficult.
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