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Updated: May 17, 2025
Ever here before, Mr Venus? 'Not inside the gate, Mr Wegg. 'You've been as far as the gate then, Mr Venus? 'Yes, Mr Wegg, and peeped in from curiosity. 'Did you see anything? 'Nothing but the dust-yard.
But the Embankment slowly brought civilization that way: the dirty rickety old houses were both condemned and demolished, till at last only the tavern remained, with hoardings and empty spaces, and a dust-yard round it. The house stood at what had been a corner. The red-tiled roof was so high-pitched as to be almost perpendicular.
An enclosure of one or two acres, in an out-of-the-way street, might have been the original of the dust-yard that contained Boffin's Bower, except that Boffin's Bower was several miles distant, on the northern outskirt of London. A string of carts, full of miscellaneous street and house rubbish, all called here by the general name of "dust," were waiting their turn to discharge.
From this door you saw the side, or rather the back, which the house kept for its intimates; a side even more picturesque with red-tiled roofs and dormer windows than that which faced the street. The passage led down to a slum, and on the left hand, as you entered, lay the empty space and the dust-yard where the carts were sheltered in sheds, or left beneath the sky, behind the ruinous hoarding.
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