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CHRONICLES OF AN OLD INN

OR,

A Few Words about Gray's Inn.

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CHRONICLES OF
AN OLD INN

OR,

A FEW WORDS ABOUT GRAY'S INN.

BY

ANDRÉE HOPE.

LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL,
Limited.
1887.

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CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,
CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

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Dedicated

BY PERMISSION, AND WITH THE DEEPEST RESPECT,

TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT,

Treasurer,

AND TO THE

HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF BENCHERS

OF GRAY'S INN.

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PREFACE.

It is with feelings of much diffidence, even with alarm, that thislittle book is given to the world. It was written to give pleasure tomany dear to the writer's heart, relatives and friends, most of whomhave already gone to that "Shadowy Land" to which we are all so fasthastening.

They, alas! can no longer feel an interest in the pages written inhours of much happiness and of cruel sorrow. Probably the literaryworld, of whom the writer stands[Pg viii] in trembling awe, will regard withthe same indifference a little work so crude and incomplete. But assometimes a rough sketch brings persons and places as vividly toremembrance as highly finished pictures, perhaps these "In MemoriamChronicles of an Old Inn" may, in some degree, interest those who havenot time to read more skilfully written but longer histories.

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CONTENTS.