The Invasion of 1910
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The opening
CHAPTER I. THE SURPRISE.
THE ATTACK.
THE SURPRISE.
Two of the myriad of London’s nightworkers were walking down Fleet Street together soon after dawn on Sunday morning, 2nd September.
The sun had not yet risen. That main artery of London traffic, with its irregular rows of closed shops and newspaper offices, was quiet and pleasant in the calm, mystic light before the falling of the smoke-pall.
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- The words
- The author's text, copied word for word.
- Copied from
- Left out
- The source library's header, footer and license, in 3 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
- Pictures and their captions, in 2 places
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
- Displayed newspaper facsimile text (kept with its picture, not as prose)
- Closing line (house style leaves out THE END)
- Printer's line