Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… there were omnibuses rattling by; there were ballad-singers, street cries, street passengers, street beggars, and street music; there were cheap theatres within call, which you would do better to be at some pains to improve, my worthy … In a niche -- not in a room -- but at one end of a cheerless gallery -- stood a pianoforte, with a few ragged music-leaves upon the desk. Of course, the music was turned upside down. Several such galleries on the "female side;" all exactly alike. One, set apart for …
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