passage-floor

Updated: July 15, 2025

Watkins Tottle,’ said Parsons. ‘It’s the gentleman that come in this morning, Jem,’ screamed a voice from the top of the kitchen-stairs, which belonged to a dirty woman who had just brought her chin to a level with the passage-floor. ‘The gentleman’s in the coffee-room.’

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people