Chapter 22
"Only one thing could I see clearly before me, the cold exposure and misery of the snowstorm and the night. "And then I had a brilliant idea. I turned down one of the roads leading from Gower Street to Tottenham Court Road, and found myself outside Omniums, the big establishment where everything is to be bought, -- you know the place, -- meat, grocery, linen, furniture, clothing, oil paintings even, -- a huge meandering collection of shops rather than a shop. I had thought I should find the doors open, but they were closed, and as I stood in the wide entrance a carriage stopped outside, and a man in uniform -- you know the kind of personage with `Omnium' on his cap -- flung open the door. I contrived to enter, and walking down the shop -- it was a department where they were selling ribbo
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