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Show Concord ! " [The Concord bed-chamber was always 

 assigned to a passenger by the Mail.] '' Gentleman's 

 valise and hot water to Concord. (You will find a sea-coal 

 fire, sir.) Fetch Barber to Concord ! Stir about now 

 there for Concord ; " and so on. Where is this drawer now 

 to be found at Dover, I ask ? Where is Concord, with its 

 vision of comfort and a sea-coal fire .'* Where is the 

 Royal George indeed ^ Its place is no longer known 

 among Dover inns — or it may be the Lord Warden 

 Hotel, for aught that I know. 



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A Roadside Inn, Hoilingboume. 



And the customs of the inhabitants have as much 

 changed of course as the .sea view of their town. Dover 

 no longer " hides itself away from the beach, or runs its 

 head into the chalk clifts like a marine ostrich ; nor do 

 the inhabitants stroll about at the dead of night and 

 look seaward ; particularly at those times when the tide 

 made and was near flood." Or if they do they are 

 looking for a Channel Steamer, and not for smuggled 



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