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СКАЧАТЬ – the place where God and the saints live

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      the metropolis – London

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      the House of Commons – the elected legislative body and, formally, the lower house of the British Parliament; its origin goes back to the 13th century.

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      Lambeth – an inner borough of London to the south of the River Thames; the first settlement dates back to pre-Roman times.

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      intagli – pl. from intaglio – figure or ornament cut deep into the surface of stone

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      tankard – a large mug for drinking beer

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      ale – a kind of beer

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      Brittany – a region of France, a peninsula washed by the At-lantic Ocean, the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel

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      Protestant – a member of any of the Christian churches that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century at the time of the Reformation

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      Patmos – an island, the smallest of the twelve Greek Islands, the place of the exile of St. John the Divine

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      NOTE. ADDED BY FRANKLIN BLAKE. – Miss Clack may make her mind quite easy on this point. Nothing will be added, altered or removed, in her manuscript, or in any of the other manuscripts which pass through my hands. Whatever opinions any of the writers may express, whatever peculiarities of treatment may mark, and perhaps in a literary sense, disfigure the narratives which I am now collecting, not a line will be tampered with anywhere, from first to last. As genuine documents they are sent to me – and as genuine documents I shall preserve them, endorsed by the attestations of witnesses who can speak to the facts. It only remains to be added that “the person chiefly concerned” in Miss Clack’s narrative, is happy enough at the present moment, not only to brave the smartest exercise of Miss Clack’s pen, but even to recognise its unquestionable value as an instrument for the exhibition of Miss Clack’s character.

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      Lombard Street – a street in the City of London, a financial and banking centre

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      Kilburn – an area in Brent, an outer borough of London, to the northwest of the metropolis

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      Northumberland Street – a street in central London

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      (the) Strand – one of the main streets in central London with theatres, expensive shops and hotels

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      Tottenham Court Road – a street in central London

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      Mammon – the god of greed

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      Montagu Square – a square in central London

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      the Flood – the biblical flood described in the Old Testa-ment; God determined to punish people for corruption and told the righteous man Noah to build the ark and to take into it his family and all species of animals.

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      phial – a small bottle for liquid medicine

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      Pagan – pre-Christian or not following the teachings of t

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Seringapatam – a town in southern India; the town got its name for the 12th century temple to the Hindu god Vishnu. In the 15th century it became the capital of the rajahs and sultans

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Mohammedan – Muslim

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Mahmud of Ghizni (998–1030) – sultan of Ghazna, the king-dom comprising the territory of present-day Afghanistan, most of Iran and northern India

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Somnauth – Somnath, an ancient city in west-central India, now ruined; it is known for its temple of Shiva (Lord of the Moon)

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Brahmins – members of the caste of Hindu priests

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Benares – Varanasi, a sacred city of the Hindus in northern India on the left bank of the Ganges River

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Vishnu – one of the main Hindu gods; Vishnu is associated with the Sun

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Aurungzebe – Aurangzeb (1618–1707), emperor of India in 1658–1707, the last of the Mogul emperors

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the Moguls – a Muslim dynasty that ruled India in the 16th–18th centuries

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Brahma(h) – one of the major gods in Hinduism who created the earth and everything on it

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Tippoo – Tippu (1750–1799), sultan of Mysore; he died in 1799 when his capital, Seringapatam, was stormed by the Brit-ish forces.

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Yorkshire – a large historic county in the north-central part of England

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the Garden of Eden – in the Old Testament, paradise where the first man and woman lived

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Adam – in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the first man cre-ated by God on the sixth day of creation

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claret – Bordeaux wine; the city of Bordeaux was known for its wine even in the Roman times

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jugglers – persons who perform tricks to amuse people

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Reformatory – an institution for reforming young crimi-nals

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quicksand – liquid sand combined with pools of water at the mouth of large rivers or along the beach

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