Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: "LINES OF BLACK BARGES" (WATERLOO BRIDGE)] Our House And London out of Our Windows BY Elizabeth Robins Pennell _With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell_ [Illustration: WATERLOO BRIDGE] Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1912 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY JOSEPH PENNELL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published October 1912_ [Illustration: THE BIG, LOW, HEAVY ENGLISH CLOUDS"] _To Augustine_ [Illustration: DOWN TO ST. PAUL'S] [Illustration: "THERE IS MOVEMENT AND LIFE" (THE UNDERGROUND STATION AND CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE)] Contents INTRODUCTION xi I. 'ENRIETTER 1 II. TRIMMER 33 III. LOUISE 79 IV. OUR CHARWOMEN 119 V. CLEMENTINE 153 VI. THE OLD HOUSEKEEPER 201 VII. THE NEW HOUSEKEEPER 227 VIII. OUR BEGGARS 251 IX. THE TENANTS 289 X. THE QUARTER 339 [Illustration: "AT NIGHT MYRIADS OF LIGHTS COME OUT"] List of Illustrations "LINES OF BLACK BARGES" (WATERLOO BRIDGE) _BASTARD TITLE_ DOWN TO ST. PAUL'S _FRONTISPIECE_ WATERLOO BRIDGE _TITLE-PAGE_ "THE BIG, LOW, HEAVY ENGLISH CLOUDS" _DEDICATION_ "THERE IS MOVEMENT AND LIFE" (THE UNDERGROUND STATION AND CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE) _CONTENTS_ "AT NIGHT MYRIADS OF LIGHTS COME OUT" _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_ "IN WINTER THE GREAT WHITE FLIGHTS OF GULLS" 1 "AND THE WONDER GROWS WITH THE NIGHT" 33 "TUMBLED, WEATHER-WORN, RED-TILED ROOFS" 79 "UP TO WESTMINSTER" 119 "WHEN THERE IS A SUN ON A WINTER MORNING" 153 "A WILDERNESS OF CHIMNEY-POTS" 201 THE SPIRE OF ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS 227 CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE FROM OUR WINDOWS 251 THE LION BREWERY 289 OPPOSITE TO SURREY 339 Introduction