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Old Saint Paul’s

BOOK THE FOURTH
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A fourth contained male and female habiliments, spread out like the dresses in a theatrical wardrobe.

Most of these garments were of the gayest and costliest description, and of the latest fashion, and Leonard sighed as he looked upon them, and thought of the fate of those they had so lately adorned.
"There is contagion enough in those clothes to infect a whole city," said Rainbird, who regarded them with different feelings.

"I have half a mind to set fire to them." "It were a good deed to do so," returned Leonard; "but it must not be done now.

Let us go upstairs.

These are the only rooms below." Accordingly, they ascended the staircase, and entered chamber after chamber, all of which were as full of spoil as those they had just visited; but they could find no one, nor was there any symptom that the house was tenanted.


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