"Man wishes to be loved--expects to be so: And yet how few live so as to be loved!" It was a warm afternoon in the beginning of July--warm everywhere; and particularly so in the house of Master Robert Altham, the patty-maker, who lived at the corner of Saint Martin's Lane, where it runs down into the Strand. Shall we look along the Strand? for the time is 1372, five hundred years ago, and the Strand was then a very different place from the street as we know it now.…
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