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... Bermondsey . A plumber went to the house of some retired tradespeople to do some repairs . They lived in a semi - detached house in Kennington . He was a good - looking youth and their daughter fell in love with him . They met at nights ...
... Bermondsey . A plumber went to the house of some retired tradespeople to do some repairs . They lived in a semi - detached house in Kennington . He was a good - looking youth and their daughter fell in love with him . They met at nights ...
Page 317
... Bermondsey . A man gassed in the war was living on a pen- sion with his wife in two rooms on the ground floor of a three- storey house . They both belonged to a burial club . He had been ill for a long time and at last he realised he ...
... Bermondsey . A man gassed in the war was living on a pen- sion with his wife in two rooms on the ground floor of a three- storey house . They both belonged to a burial club . He had been ill for a long time and at last he realised he ...
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William Somerset Maugham. a working - class family in the slums of Bermondsey . I thought it would form a pleasing termination to my career to finish with the same sort of story of the shiftless poor of London as I had begun with fifty ...
William Somerset Maugham. a working - class family in the slums of Bermondsey . I thought it would form a pleasing termination to my career to finish with the same sort of story of the shiftless poor of London as I had begun with fifty ...
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