HIS RISE, HIS GREATNESS, AND HIS FALL BY WALTER BESANT AUTHOR OF ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN ETC. HERR PAULUS. BOOK THE SECOND-cont. CHAPTER VI. BEAUMONT STREET, MARYLEBONE. IF you walk up that street, now well nigh forgotten by the fashionable world, called the Marylebone High-street, just after you pass the old Parish Church, and before you come to the stately new church of St. Marylebone, you will light upon a small row of little houses running eastward. A street called Beaumont-street begins here, but long before there was any Beaumont-street these houses were erected. They are two-storied houses, and painted drab, and always look as if they had been done up' last summer, and their shutters-they still have shutters-are green. VOL. II. 6 B |
