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He had to consider his face in the light of an open warrant of caption, or billposter and placard, of the thoughts which were behind it.

At one point he took a job as a billposter.

Marie was cook, housemaid, valet, mother, doctor, and any number of things beside to Knight; just as in the village across the stream where she lived—or rather slept o' nights—she was billposter, bell-ringer, and town crier, to say nothing of her being the mother of eleven children, all her own—Knight being the adopted twelfth.

“I’d as soon eat billposter’s paste as codfish.”

The entrance was from the street, through a door in a billposter's hoarding; and on the river not far away the steamboats hooted, and, in windy weather, the floorboards hummed to keep them company.