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    Passing of the Third Floor Back
    Passing of the Third Floor Back
    Passing of the Third Floor Back
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    Passing of the Third Floor Back

    By Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Passing of the Third Floor Back - Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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      Title: Passing of the Third Floor Back

      Author: Jerome K. Jerome

      Release Date: July 26, 2008 [EBook #865]

      Last Updated: January 15, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK ***

      Produced by Ron Burkey, Amy Thomte, and David Widger

      PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK

      By Jerome K. Jerome

      Author of Paul Kelver, Three Men in a Boat, etc., etc.

      New York

      Dodd, Mead & Company

      1909

      Copyright, 1904, By Jerome K. Jerome

      Copyright, 1908, By Dodd, Mead & Company

      Published, September, 1908

      The neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o'clock of a November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of appearance anything out of the common, immunity from observation. Tibb's boy, screaming at the top of his voice that she was his honey, stopped suddenly, stepped backwards on to the toes of a voluble young lady wheeling a perambulator, and remained deaf, apparently, to the somewhat personal remarks of the voluble young lady. Not until he had reached the next corner—and then more as a soliloquy than as information to the street—did Tibb's boy recover sufficient interest in his own affairs to remark that he was her bee. The voluble young lady herself, following some half-a-dozen yards behind, forgot her wrongs in contemplation of the stranger's back. There was this that was peculiar about the stranger's back: that instead of being flat it presented a decided curve. It ain't a 'ump, and it don't look like kervitcher of the spine, observed the voluble young lady to herself. Blimy if I don't believe 'e's taking 'ome 'is washing up his back.

      The constable at the corner, trying to seem busy doing nothing, noticed the stranger's approach with gathering interest. That's an odd sort of a walk of yours, young man, thought the constable. You take care you don't fall down and tumble over yourself.

      Thought he was a young man, murmured the constable, the stranger having passed him. He had a young face right enough.

      The daylight was fading. The stranger, finding it impossible to read the name of the street upon the corner house, turned back.

      Why, 'tis a young man, the constable told himself; a mere boy.

      I beg your pardon, said the stranger; but would you mind telling me my way to Bloomsbury Square.

      This is Bloomsbury Square, explained the constable; leastways round the corner is. What number might you be wanting?

      The stranger took from the ticket pocket of his tightly buttoned overcoat a piece of paper, unfolded it and read it out: Mrs. Pennycherry. Number Forty-eight.

      Round to the left, instructed him the constable; "fourth house. Been recommended

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