The road issues into the highway.

There were coffee houses where the first medical men might be consulted. […] There were Puritan coffee houses where no oath was heard, and where lank-haired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde involves a Gothic double.

You wined me and dined me when I was your girl / Promised if I'd be your wife, you'd show me the world