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| | The East-End - London Travel Guide |
 | | IF one side of London has become the chief scene of consumption, the other, lying beside its river port, was early destined to the duty of supply. |
 | | The most time-honoured structure at this end, which stands just upon the City edge, is the Tower, now dwarfed to a toy beside that lofty Tower Bridge that seems designed as a gigantic gateway and portcullis for the port of London. |
 | | The spices that help to embalm fiction are style, which he had at least clear and careful, humour, in which his taste was not too fine for the average reader, and sympathy, that is akin to true humour as well as to pathos. |
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