Excerpt from The Man in Chains, Vol. 1 of 3Gray's inn lane is not in appearance suggestive of hedgerows and Wild ¿owers, the creeping convolvulus or the prickly briar. It is wretched and miserable in Winter, it is like an oven in summer. It can never put forth a green leaf, even if it had any trees along its course, which it has not, and it is not probable that it will be ever anything else than What it is, - a leading thoroughfare, narrow, squalid, and dirty. On each side are the dusty and dilapidated remnants of a past age an age which succeeded that in which.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.