Our House by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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[Illustration: "LINES OF BLACK BARGES" (WATERLOO BRIDGE)]

Our House And London out of Our Windows

BY Elizabeth Robins Pennell

_With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell_

[Illustration: WATERLOO BRIDGE]

Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1912

_Published October 1912_

[Illustration: THE BIG, LOW, HEAVY ENGLISH CLOUDS"]

_To Augustine_

[Illustration: DOWN TO ST. PAUL'S]

[Illustration: "THERE IS MOVEMENT AND LIFE" (THE UNDERGROUND STATION AND CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE)]

Contents

INTRODUCTION xi

I. 'ENRIETTER 1

II. TRIMMER 33

III. LOUISE 79

IV. OUR CHARWOMEN 119

V. CLEMENTINE 153

VI. THE OLD HOUSEKEEPER 201

VII. THE NEW HOUSEKEEPER 227

VIII. OUR BEGGARS 251

IX. THE TENANTS 289

X. THE QUARTER 339

[Illustration: "AT NIGHT MYRIADS OF LIGHTS COME OUT"]

List of Illustrations

"LINES OF BLACK BARGES" (WATERLOO BRIDGE) _BASTARD TITLE_

DOWN TO ST. PAUL'S _FRONTISPIECE_

WATERLOO BRIDGE _TITLE-PAGE_

"THE BIG, LOW, HEAVY ENGLISH CLOUDS" _DEDICATION_

"THERE IS MOVEMENT AND LIFE" (THE UNDERGROUND STATION AND CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE) _CONTENTS_

"AT NIGHT MYRIADS OF LIGHTS COME OUT" _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_

"IN WINTER THE GREAT WHITE FLIGHTS OF GULLS" 1

"AND THE WONDER GROWS WITH THE NIGHT" 33

"TUMBLED, WEATHER-WORN, RED-TILED ROOFS" 79

"UP TO WESTMINSTER" 119

"WHEN THERE IS A SUN ON A WINTER MORNING" 153