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Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi

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VISIT TO LONDON. 41<br />

stations from which they expected <strong>to</strong> obtain<br />

the best view of the day's proceedings.<br />

" <strong>Peter</strong> Parley was pleased <strong>to</strong> find, on our<br />

arrival at the Abbey, that the doors had<br />

been opened a short time before, and the<br />

crowd of eager expectants who had been<br />

waiting, some of them upwards of an hour,<br />

had been already admitted. We were thus<br />

saved the necessity of exposing ourselves <strong>to</strong><br />

being crushed by stronger and more energetic<br />

claimants for admission.<br />

" On entering the venerable building I<br />

was struck mute with as<strong>to</strong>nishment at the<br />

magnificence of the preparations which now<br />

burst upon the sight with all their breadth<br />

and effect ; though I had seen it so recently,

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