<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:22:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@old.london/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter]]></title><description><![CDATA[To make short of a long story, gentlemen, they all talk together, and cry together, and remind the old gentleman that as to the noble family, his own grandfather would have been lord mayor if he hadn’t]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/maid/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/maid/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter</guid><category><![CDATA[maid]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:06:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #8/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[You have not changed your mind because of a little girlish folly—eh, Mr. Grig?”‘Tom, gentlemen, had had his eyes about him, and was pretty sure that all this was a device and trick of the waiting-maid,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/maid/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-8-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/maid/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-8-9</guid><category><![CDATA[maid]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:03:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #7/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grig.”‘ “Too clearly,” cries Tom, sinking into a chair, and giving one hand to the old gentleman, and one to the Gifted. “The orb of day has set on Thomas Grig for ever!”‘At this affecting remark, the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/grig/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-7-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/grig/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-7-9</guid><category><![CDATA[grig]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:08:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #6/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[“What do you keep such unpleasant things here for?”‘ “Throw him away!” cries the old gentleman. “We use him constantly in astrology. He’s a charm.”‘ “I shouldn’t have thought it,” says Tom, “from his]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tom/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-6-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tom/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-6-9</guid><category><![CDATA[tom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:08:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #5/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[How do you do, my man?” with which kind and patronising expressions, Tom reached up to pat him on the head, and quoted two lines about little boys, from Doctor Watts’s Hymns, which he had learnt at a Sunday]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tom/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-5-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tom/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-5-9</guid><category><![CDATA[tom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:08:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #4/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[“She has a graceful carriage, an exquisite shape, a sweet voice, a countenance beaming with animation and expression; and the eye,” he says, rubbing his hands, “of a startled fawn.”‘Tom supposed this might]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/stone/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-4-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/stone/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-4-9</guid><category><![CDATA[stone]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:26:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #3/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[He thought it likely enough that he might be saying within himself, “Here’s a new lamplighter—a good-looking young fellow—shall I stand something to drink?” Thinking this possible, he keeps quite still,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tom/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-3-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tom/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-3-9</guid><category><![CDATA[tom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 05:21:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #2/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[But that emancipation hasn’t come yet, and hadn’t then, and consequently they confined themselves to the bosoms of their families, cooked the dinners, mended the clothes, minded the children, comforted]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/emancipation/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-2-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/emancipation/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-2-9</guid><category><![CDATA[emancipation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Literature] Charles Dickens:  The Lamplighter #1/9]]></title><description><![CDATA[margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -1.5em; line-height:1.4em; text-align: left; font-size: .95em; } /font-size/ span.smcap {font-variant: small-caps;font-size: 1em;}]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/lamplighters/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-1-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/lamplighters/@old.london/literature-charles-dickens-the-lamplighter-1-9</guid><category><![CDATA[lamplighters]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[old.london]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:36:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>