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Novel Notes, by Jerome K. Jerome
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Title: Novel Notes
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Release Date: March 24, 2005 [eBook #2037]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1893 Leadenhall Press Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
NOVEL NOTES
To Big-Hearted, Big-Souled, Big-Bodied friend Conan Doyle
PROLOGUE
Years ago, when I was very small, we lived in a great house in a long, straight, brown-coloured street, in the east end of London. It was a noisy, crowded street in the daytime; but a silent, lonesome street at night, when the gas-lights, few and far between, partook of the character of lighthouses rather than of illuminants, and the tramp, tramp of the policeman on his long beat seemed to be ever drawing nearer, or fading away, except for brief moments when the footsteps ceased, as he paused to rattle a door or window, or to flash his lantern into some dark passage leading down towards the river.
The house had many advantages, so my father would explain to friends who expressed surprise at his choosing such a residence, and among these was included in my own small morbid mind the circumstance that its back windows commanded an uninterrupted view of an ancient and much-peo