"The Bright Boy" by Arthur Machen

0:00:00 Chapter 1
0:39:13 Chapter 2
1:06:14 Chapter 3

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The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: "Merchant Taylors' School, Suffolk Lane, London", etching by William Sheppard, 1815

Chapter 2: "Looking across the valley to the Black Mountains in Wales" by Neil Howard, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/).

Chapter 3: Court No. 1, in the Old Bailey as rebuilt in 1907. We don't know what year the trial took place, but if Last's bottles of port were from 1892, and that was presumably from his time before taking the tutoring job, and then at the end of the story he is now an old man, it seems safe to assume the trial happened after 1907, not before, and so the image for the post-1907 renovations of the Old Bailey. Pre-1907 images are available, but not applicable.

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