There is a lot of trouble in Petticoat Lane. In fact, the mock auction boys have muscled in to such an extent on the bomb damaged ground that there is a danger that Petticoat Lane may lose its good name by the boys coming in now with the runouts to make quick profits and then get out.

At last, wearied out, I flung my book down, and, going to the mantelpiece, took down a pipe and filled it.

Floppy diskette drives have largely been replaced by more efficient media such as the USB memory stick.

When the crowds burst again into the assembly hall, they bore with them on a pike the head of a conventionnel, Féraud, who had tried to bar their path.