Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 253
em. As I ascended the dimlylighted stairway, the rumble oftraffic and the shouts of menbegan to melt away into silence,until the voices of people aboveand below me on the spiralstairway became plainly audi-ble. As I made my way up thesteps, worn by the tread ofthousands of feet, I wonderedhow many… … J902. ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. 183 and more distant. At length I arrived at the top, andcame out into the air again. Up there the air was verydifferent from the close atmosphere of the crowdedstreets, now two hundred feet below. The first thingthat took my attention was the Tower Bridge, with itsgreat…
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