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| | Victorian London - Districts - Streets - Holywell Street |
 | | The houseless Holywellites, when they could he discovered from amidst the clouds of suffocating dust that arose on all sides, were received by the most respectable shopkeepers in the Strand, and, for the nonce, clothed and comforted. |
 | | One venerable person seemed perfectly bewildered by the offer of clean linen; and another, a dealer in the light pictorial literature that once coquettishly peeped from the Holywell Street window, made a most vigorous resistance (his brain, no doubt, overwrought by the calamity) when an attempt was made to wash him. |
 | | No: Holywell Street still stands, a proud monument of the vested rights of every sort of physical and moral filth and foulness. |
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