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"The private residence of Mr Pancks was in Pentonville, where he
lodged on the second-floor of a professional gentleman in an
extremely small way, who had an inner-door within the street door,
poised on a spring and starting open with a click like a trap; and
who wrote up in the fan-light, RUGG, GENERAL AGENT, ACCOUNTANT,
DEBTS RECOVERED.
The fan-light is a distinctive feature of Georgian architectural style. I is a semicircular arch over a window,
with several sector shaped panes,which resemble an opened lady's fan. We have three such windows in our dining-room, but I didn't know the name for them until recently.
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And I've known the name for years upon years, wwh, probably because such windows over doors are in abundance throughout the Richmond area. They're properly pretty, and, if done with thick bevelled glass, proclaim to the ascending guests, "We here have arrived,'--the degree of that arrival in direct proportion to the thickness of the glass.
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