The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as "the steam of the social soup".
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Chatterton (London: Abacus, 1991), ch. 5, p. 72.Peter Ackroyd
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