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3IL0 BMEEi^B GREEN.
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Sad And Appalling As Are Some Of The D.E...
Her face flushed ; and slie proceeded at length more rapidly- —on through mysterious byways in the heart of Milton Street and
Golden Lane > " . Dangerous looking fellows- accosted , her , but she replied tartly in the vernacularand it ; was enough . Emerging
, suddenly into a more respectable thoroughfare , she disappeared within certain folding doors advertised as the " Hetail Department "
of an establishment which , bore sundry prominent notifications respecting " ¦ Old Tom the . " A excellent yand qualities if ever and our marvellous degraded sisters cheapness are of to be its
, redeemed from the curse of intemperance , the amelioration of their social condition must - precede rather than follow that redemption .
There are times in the experience of most of them , and these not very infrequent , when , if from their distraction -they could not find
oblivion in the dram , they would seek it in death . But the girl has appeared once moreand notwithstanding that
, she is so addicted to short cuts by means of narrow passages and threatening entries ; we will reach her abode before her .
I have not deceived you . I told you -we were to visit an attic ; and , though appearances are far from invitingand we do not
, quite like the gibber of foreigners as we ascend the stairs , it is resolved that we persevere . A good fire is inviting anywhere in
very cold weather , and on reaching our destination we find before such a fire an old woman smoking her pipe in great tranquillity .
You would imagine her to have rather a good time of it , but judge not too hastily . See you those apples ? wellshe has those to " rub
, up , " and then she must leave these comfortable quarters , and descend with , her chair and table , and sit through-weary hours just
within the entry , looking vainly for shelter from the scathing east wind to an old cotton umbrella . At presenthowevershe seems
in rather a suspiciously dreamy and blissful state , of mind , , nor is it our intention to arouse her . Breakfast is on the tablethat isthe
, , remnants . There were portions of dripping , coffee , sugar , tobacco , & g ., screwed up in papers , so far was she beforehand for her next
meal . Then there were vertebral sections of fried fish , which had formed last night ' s supper , no doubt ; and there were some lucifers ,
a dirty , inverted candle in a dirty candlestick , a dream-book , ( the old lady ' s favorite companion to the breakfast table ) and various
, other things , amongst which a phial containing some colorless liquid was conspicuous .
Near to the window was a contrivance which did duty , rather unsatisfactorily , for a table , and around this were-seated about a
dozen little girls > who were directed by a delicate young creature of , perhaps , sixteen . She was " frosting , " and the frost , or ground
glass , which she was scattering from a pepper-box , and which is dress exceeding a peculiar ly tenacious sheen , had giving imparted her a to singular her counten and ance rather and pleasing to her
, appearance .
' The little girls were " _ttirning . " Their directress having drawn
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/22/
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