Charles Dickens' London: The Old Curiosity Shop

It was at Bevis Marks, in a small, dark house, that Mr. Sampson Brass and his sister Sally, "a kind of amazon at common law," "thirty-five or thereabouts, of a gaunt and bony figure and a resolute bearing," carried on business as an attorney.

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On Tower Hill lodged Mr. Quilp, and there his wife had what Dickens calls her "bower," whither she was frequently supposed to retire; and across the river was Quilp's wharf, from which that demoniacal dwarf accidentally slipped off into the river and was drowned, his body being found far down amongst the marshes.

Drury Lane reminds us of Dick Swiveller, whose apartments were in that convenient neighbourhood, "and had the additional advantage of being over a tobacconist's shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out on the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff box."

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