 This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 361edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
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