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Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the
names of streets -- anything that might throw light upon the past had been
systematically altered.
'I never knew it had been a church,' he said.
'There's a lot of them left, really,' said the old man, 'though
they've been put to other uses. Now, how did that rhyme go? Ah! I've got
it!

'Oranges and lemons,' say the bells of St. Clement's,
'You owe me three farthings,' say the bells of St. Martin's--

there, now, that's as far as I can get. A farthing, that was a small copper
coin, looked something like a cent.'
'Where was St. Martin's?' said Winston.
'St. Martin's? That's still standing. It's in Victory Square,
alongside the picture gallery. A building with a kind of a triangular porch
and pillars in front, and a big flight of steps.'
Winston knew the place well. It was a museum used for propaganda
displays of various kinds -- scale models of rocket bombs and Floating
Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.
'St. Martin's-in-the-Fields it used to be called,' supplemented the
old man, 'though I don't recollect any fields anywhere in those parts.'
Winston did not buy the picture. It would have been an even more
incongruous possession than the glass paperweight, and impossible to carry
home, unless it were taken out of its frame. But he lingered for some
minutes more, talking to the old man, whose name, he discovered, was not
Weeks -- as one might have gathered from the inscription over the shop-
front -- but Charrington. Mr. Charrington, it seemed, was a widower aged
sixty-three and had inhabited this shop for thirty years. Throughout that
time he had been intending to alt


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