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Sewer gas ventilating lamp in the Savoy
Underneath the gaslight's glitter
Stands a little fragile girl
Heedless of the night winds bitter
As they round about her whirl;
While the hundreds pass unheeding,
In the ev'ning's waning hours,
Still she cries with tearful pleading,
'Won't you buy my pretty flow'rs?'
Lower down the Strand, and on the other side, is Mooney's Irish House, full of mirrors and
gold lettering. A few yards away is a modern building occupied by a shoe firm - Romano
House, on the site of the restaurant. I remember Romano's, though not, unfortunately, in
its heyday when long ago Romano's shared with the old Café Royal the reputation of be-
ing the gayest in town. George Edwardes and his Gaiety girls supped here and poor Bessie
