![]() ![]() Outside the window of the room there were a few feet of earth adorned with a low bush or two, a line of railings, a stone-paved street, and on the other side a long row of uniform yellow brick houses. It was about three o’clock on a November afternoon, that season of fogs and rains and mud, when towns-people long for fresh air and hillsides, and country-folk think wistfully of the warmth and lights of a city, when nobody is satisfied, and everybody has a cold. ![]() They most effectually set the ball a-rolling, and so the story starts in a small room looking out on a very uninteresting London street. Into the history of Mr Francis Beveridge, as supplied by the obliging candour of the Baron von Blitzenberg and the notes of Dr Escott, Dr Twiddel and his friend Robert Welsh make a kind of explanatory entry. ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LUNATIC AT LARGE*** You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lunatic at Large by J. ![]()
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