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Septimus

CHAPTER X
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The Inn suggested law; the law, solicitors, who knew even more about licenses than Hall Porters and Policemen.

A man he once knew had left him one day after lunch to consult his solicitors in Gray's Inn.

He entered the low, gloomy gateway and accosted the porter.
"Are there any solicitors living in the Inn ?" "Not so many as there was.

They're mostly architects.

But still there's heaps." "Will you kindly direct me to one ?" The man gave him two or three addresses, and he went comforted across the square to the east wing, whose Georgian mass merged without skyline into the fuliginous vapor which Londoners call the sky.


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