The Crowded Street

by Winifred Holtby

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THE CROWDED STREET

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ANDERBY WOLD

THE BODLEY HEAD

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THE
CROWDED STREET

BY WINIFRED HOLTBY

LONDON
JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD.

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First Published in 1924

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MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY JARROLD AND SONS LTD. NORWICH

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TO
JEAN FINLAY McWILLIAM
AN UNWORTHY RETURN
FOR THE DELIGHT OF
HER LETTERS

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"Beware!

You met two travellers in the town

Who promised you that they would take you down

The valley far away

To some strange carnival this summer's day

Take care,

Lest in the crowded street

They hurry past you with forgetting feet,

And leave you standing there."

Vera Brittain

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