Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
Peter Parley's visit to London - Tim And Angi
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,