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68 - Mysteries of London Vol I part 1 by George W M Reynolds · Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

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  Speaker 1: By George Reynold's Chapter sixty five. The parlor of the
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  Speaker 1: dark House was as usual, filled with a very tolerable
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle of queer looking customers. One would have thought, to
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  Speaker 1: look at their beards, that there was not a barber
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  Speaker 1: in the whole district of the Tower Hamlets. And yet
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  Speaker 1: it appears to be a social peculiarity that the lower
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  Speaker 1: the neighborhood, the more numerous as shaving shops. Amongst the
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  Speaker 1: very rich classes, nobles and gentlemen are shaved by their valets,
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  Speaker 1: the males of the middle grade shave themselves, and the
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  Speaker 1: men of the lower orders are shaved at barber shops.
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  Speaker 1: Hence the immense number of party colored poles projecting over
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  Speaker 1: the pavement of miserable and dirty streets, and the total
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  Speaker 1: absence of those signs in wealthy districts. The guests in
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  Speaker 1: the dark House parlor formed about as pleasant an assemblage
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  Speaker 1: of scamps as one could wish to behold. The establishment
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  Speaker 1: was a notorious resort for thieves and persons of the
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  Speaker 1: worst character, and no one who frequented it thought it
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  Speaker 1: worth while to shroud his real occupation beneath an air
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  Speaker 1: of false modesty. The conversation in the parlor therefore usually
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  Speaker 1: turned upon the tricks and exploits of the thieves frequenting
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  Speaker 1: the place, and many entertaining autobiographical sketches were in this
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  Speaker 1: way delivered. Women often constituted a portion of the company
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  Speaker 1: in the parlor, and they were invariably the most noisy
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  Speaker 1: and quarrelsome of all the guests. Whenever the landlord was
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  Speaker 1: compelled to call in the police to have a clearance
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  Speaker 1: of the house, a proceeding to which he only had
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  Speaker 1: recourse when his guests were drunk and penniless and demanded
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  Speaker 1: supplies of liquor upon credit, a woman was sure to
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  Speaker 1: be at the bottom of the row, and a virigo
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  Speaker 1: of spittlefields would think no more smashing every window in
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  Speaker 1: the house, or dashing out the landlord's brains with one
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  Speaker 1: of his own pewter pots, than tossing off a tumbler
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  Speaker 1: of raw gin without winking. On the evening of which
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  Speaker 1: we are riding, there were several women in the parlor
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  Speaker 1: of the dark house. These horrible females were the blow
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  Speaker 1: winds of the thieves frequently in the house, and the
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  Speaker 1: principal means of disposing of the properties stolen by their paromors.
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  Speaker 1: They usually ended by betraying their lovers to the police
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  Speaker 1: in fits of jealousy, and yet by some strange infatuation
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  Speaker 1: on the part of those lawless men. The women who
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  Speaker 1: acted in this way speedily obtained fresh husbands upon the
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  Speaker 1: organic system. For the most part, these females were disfigured
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  Speaker 1: by intemperance, and their conversation is far more bolding than
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  Speaker 1: that of the males. Oh, there is no barbarism in
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  Speaker 1: the whole world, so truly horrible and ferocious, so obscene
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  Speaker 1: and shameless as that which is found in the poor
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  Speaker 1: districts of London. Alas what a wretched mockery it is
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  Speaker 1: to hold grand meetings in Exeter Hall and proclaim with
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  Speaker 1: all due pomp and ceremony, how many savages in the
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  Speaker 1: far off islands of the globe have been converted to Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: when here at home, under our very eyes, even Lunded
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  Speaker 1: itself swarms with infidels of a more dangerous character. How
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  Speaker 1: detestable it is for philanthropy to be exercised in clothing
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  Speaker 1: negroes or red men thousands of miles distant, while our own, poor,
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  Speaker 1: coal and naked are very doors, how monstrously observed to
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  Speaker 1: erect twelve new churches in Bethel Green, and withhold the
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  Speaker 1: education that would alone enable the poor to appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: doctrines enunciated from the dozen of freshly built pulpits. But
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  Speaker 1: to return to the parlor of the dark house. In
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  Speaker 1: one corner sat the resurrection Man and the Cracksman, each
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  Speaker 1: with a smoking glass of gin and water. Before him.
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  Speaker 1: They mingled but little in the conversation, contenting themselves with
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  Speaker 1: laughing and approval of anything good that fell upon their ears,
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  Speaker 1: and listening to the discourse that took place around them. Now,
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  Speaker 1: come tell us, Joe, said a woman with eyes like saucer's,
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  Speaker 1: hair like a bundle of toe, and teeth like dominoes,
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  Speaker 1: and addressing herself to a man who was dressed like
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  Speaker 1: a coal heaver, tell us, Joe, how you come to
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  Speaker 1: be a prig? Ah? Do joe? Very good fellow, echoed
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  Speaker 1: a dozen voices, male and female. Lore is simple enough,
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  Speaker 1: cried the man, thus appealed to every poor devil, must
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  Speaker 1: become a thief in time. That's what you say, tony,
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  Speaker 1: whispered the cracksman to the resurrection man. Of course he
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  Speaker 1: must continued the coal heaver more particular than as follows
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  Speaker 1: my old trade. For though I've got on the togs
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  Speaker 1: of a whipper, I ain't one no longer. The dress
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  Speaker 1: is convenient, that's all. The blue bottles don't twig, eh,
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  Speaker 1: cried the woman with the domino teeth. That's it. But
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  Speaker 1: you ask me how I come to be a prague,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. My father was a coal whipper and
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  Speaker 1: had three sons. He brought us all up to be
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  Speaker 1: coal whippers. Also, my eldest brother was drowned in the
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  Speaker 1: pool one night when he was drunk after only drinking
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  Speaker 1: about two pots of the publican's beer. Mother brother died
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  Speaker 1: of hunger in cold Bathfield's prison, where he was sent
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  Speaker 1: there three months for taking home a bit of coal
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  Speaker 1: one night to his family when he couldn't get his
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  Speaker 1: wages paid him by the publicans that hired the gang
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  Speaker 1: in which he worked. My father died when he was forty,
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  Speaker 1: and any one to have seen him would have fancied
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  Speaker 1: he was sixty five at least, So broke down was
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  Speaker 1: he with hard work in drinking, but no coal whipper
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  Speaker 1: to an old age. They all die off at forty
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  Speaker 1: old men in the very prime of life. And why
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  Speaker 1: is that demanded the large tooth lady. Why not, repeated
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  Speaker 1: the man, Because a coal whipper isn't a human being,
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  Speaker 1: or if he is, he isn't treated as such, And
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  Speaker 1: so I've always thought he must be different from the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the world. How isn't he treated like anyone else?
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  Speaker 1: In the first place, he doesn't get paid for his
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  Speaker 1: labor in a proper way. Wapping swarms with low public houses,
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  Speaker 1: the landlords of which act as middle men between the
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  Speaker 1: owners of the colliers and the men that are hired
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  Speaker 1: to unload him. A coal whipper ain't got employment direct
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  Speaker 1: from the captain of the collier. The working of the
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  Speaker 1: collier is farmed by them landlords I speak of, and
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  Speaker 1: the whipper must apply at their houses. Those whippers, as
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  Speaker 1: drinks the most always gets employment first, And whether a
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  Speaker 1: whipper chooses to drink beer or not, is always sent
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  Speaker 1: there three times a day on board the colliers for
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  Speaker 1: the gangs. And my eye, what stuff it is? Often
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  Speaker 1: and often we have thrown it away. We couldn't possibly
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  Speaker 1: drink it, and must be queer liquor that a coal
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  Speaker 1: whipper won't drink. I should think so too, but go on, well,
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  Speaker 1: I used to earn from fifteen to eighteen shillings a week,
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  Speaker 1: and out of that eight was always stopped for the beer.
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  Speaker 1: And if I didn't spend another too on Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: when I received the balance, the landlord set me down
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  Speaker 1: as a stingy fellow and put across again my name
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  Speaker 1: and his book. What was that for? Why not to
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  Speaker 1: give me any more work till he was either forced
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  Speaker 1: to due to want of hands, or I made it
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  Speaker 1: up with him by standing a crown bowl of punch.
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  Speaker 1: So what with one thing and another? I had to
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  Speaker 1: keep myself, my wife and three children on about seven
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  Speaker 1: or eight shillings a week, after working from light to dark.
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  Speaker 1: And now your wife and children is better purioded for,
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  Speaker 1: said the woman with the huge teeth. Yes, indeed in
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  Speaker 1: the workers, answered the man sharply. So now you see
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  Speaker 1: what a coal whipper's life is. He can't be a
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  Speaker 1: sober man if he wishes to, because he must pay
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  Speaker 1: for a certain quantity of beer, and so of course
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  Speaker 1: he will threw it away unless it's so bad he
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  Speaker 1: can't keep it on his stomach. And was that often
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  Speaker 1: the case? Often? And often? Well? He can't be a
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  Speaker 1: saving man because he had no chance of getting his
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  Speaker 1: wages under his own management. He is a publican slave,
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  Speaker 1: the publicans tool and instrument negro slavery is nothing to it.
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  Speaker 1: No tyranny is equal to the tyranny of them publicans.
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  Speaker 1: And why isn't the plan altered? Ah? Why who do
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  Speaker 1: the owners of the coyers or the people that the
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  Speaker 1: cargoes consigned to care about the poor devils that unload?
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  Speaker 1: The publicans takes unloading on contract and employs the whippers
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  Speaker 1: in such a way to get an enormous profit. Talk
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  Speaker 1: of appealing to the owners, what do they care? There
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  Speaker 1: has been meetings got up to change the system. And
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  Speaker 1: what's the consequence? Why them whippers has attended? Them became
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  Speaker 1: marked men, never got no more employment and drown themselves
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  Speaker 1: in despair or turned prigs like me. Ah, that's better
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  Speaker 1: than suicide. Well, I don't know now, But them meetings,
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  Speaker 1: as I was speaking of, God up deputations to the
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  Speaker 1: Court of Adaman, and the matter was referred to the
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  Speaker 1: Coal and Corn Committee, and there was, as usual, a
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  Speaker 1: great talk and no thing done. Then an application was
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  Speaker 1: made to some minister I don't know which, and he
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  Speaker 1: set back a letter with a seal as big as
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  Speaker 1: a crown piece, just to say that he'd received the
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  Speaker 1: application and would give it his earliest attention. Some time
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  Speaker 1: passed away and no one noticed ever was taken of
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  Speaker 1: it in that quarter. And so I suppose the minister's
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  Speaker 1: earliest attention meant tens or dozen years. What a shame
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  Speaker 1: to treat people. So it's only the poor that's treated
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  Speaker 1: so And now I think I've said enough to show
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  Speaker 1: why I turned prig Like a many more whippers from
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  Speaker 1: the Port of London. There isn't a more degraded, oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: and brutalized settlement in the world than the whippers. They
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  Speaker 1: were born with examples of drunken fathers afore their eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and drunken fathers makes drunken mothers, and drunken parents makes
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  Speaker 1: sons turn out thieves and daughters prostitutes. And that of
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  Speaker 1: the existence of the coal whippers of whow it ain't
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  Speaker 1: their fault. They have an education in self command to
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  Speaker 1: refuse the drink that's forced upon them and that they
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  Speaker 1: must pay for. And their sons and daughters shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: blamed for turning out bad. How can they help it?
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  Speaker 1: And yet one reason the paper, is that the upper
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  Speaker 1: class is always a crying about the dreadful immorality of
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  Speaker 1: the poor. The laws, the laws, you see, tony, whispered
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  Speaker 1: the cracksman to his companion, of course, answered the resurrection man.
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  Speaker 1: Here we are in this room upwards of twenty thieves
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  Speaker 1: and prostitutes. I'll be bound to say that the laws
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  Speaker 1: of the state of society made eighteen of them what
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  Speaker 1: they are. Nobody knows the miseries of a coal whipper's life,
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  Speaker 1: continued the orator of the evening. But him that's been
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  Speaker 1: in hisself. He's always dirty, always lurking about public houses
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  Speaker 1: when not at work, always ready to drink, always in debt,
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  Speaker 1: and always dissatisfied with his own way of living, which isn't, however,
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  Speaker 1: his fault. There's no hope for coal whippers or their families.
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  Speaker 1: The sons that don't turn out thieves must leave the
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  Speaker 1: same terrible life of cart horse labor and constant drinking
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  Speaker 1: with a certainty of dying old men at forty, And
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  Speaker 1: the daughters that don't turn out prostitutes merry whippers and
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  Speaker 1: draw down upon their heads all the whoars and sorrows
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  Speaker 1: of the life I have been describing, well, I never
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  Speaker 1: knowed all this before. No, And there's a deal of
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  Speaker 1: misery of each kind in London that isn't known to
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  Speaker 1: them as dwells on the other kinds of wretchedness. And
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  Speaker 1: if these things gets represented in Parliament, the cry is, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the people's always complaining, they're never satisfied. Well, you speak
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  Speaker 1: of each person knowing his own species of misery and
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  Speaker 1: being ignorant of the nature of the misery. Next door,
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  Speaker 1: said the young and somewhat prepossessing woman, but upon whose
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  Speaker 1: face intemperance and liciousness had made sad havoc. All I
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  Speaker 1: can say is that people see girls like us laughing
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  Speaker 1: and joking always in public, but they little know how
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  Speaker 1: we weep and moan in private. Drink gin, then, as
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  Speaker 1: I do, cried the woman with a large teeth. Ah
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  Speaker 1: you know well enough, continued the young female, who had
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  Speaker 1: previously spoken, that we do drink a great deal too
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  Speaker 1: much of that. My father used to sell jigger gin
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  Speaker 1: in George Whitecastle. And what the devil is jigger gin,
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  Speaker 1: demanded one of the male guests. It is made from molasses,
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  Speaker 1: beer and vitrol lore. Everyone knows what jigger gin is.
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  Speaker 1: Three wine. Glasses of it will make the strongest man
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  Speaker 1: mad drunk. I'll tell you one thing, continued the young woman,
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  Speaker 1: which you do not seem to know. That that is
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  Speaker 1: that the very, very poor people, who are driven almost
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  Speaker 1: to despair and suicide by their sorrows, are glad to
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  Speaker 1: drink this jigger gin, which is all they can afford
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  Speaker 1: for three halfpence. They may have enough to send them raving.
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  Speaker 1: And then what do they think or care about their miseries? Ah,
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  Speaker 1: very true, said the coal whipper. I've heard this before. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my father sold that horrid stuff, resumed the young woman,
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  Speaker 1: and though he was constantly getting into trouble for it,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't mind. But the moment he came out of
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  Speaker 1: prison and he took to his old trade again. I
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  Speaker 1: was his only child, and my mother died when I
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  Speaker 1: was about nine years old. She was always drunk with
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  Speaker 1: the jigger jin, and one day she fell into the
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  Speaker 1: fire and was burnt to death. I had no one
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  Speaker 1: then who had cared a thing for me, but used
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  Speaker 1: to run about in the streets with all the boys
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood. My father took in lodgers, sixteen or
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  Speaker 1: seventeen of us boys and girls, all huddled together, used
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  Speaker 1: to sleep in one room not near so big as this.
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  Speaker 1: There was fifteen lodging houses at the same kind in
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  Speaker 1: George Yard at that time, and it was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be about two hundred and seventy five. Persons used to
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  Speaker 1: sleep in those houses every night, male and female lodgers,
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  Speaker 1: all pigging together. Every sheet, blanket and bolster in my
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  Speaker 1: father's house was marked with stop thief and large letters. Well,
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  Speaker 1: at eleven years old, I went upon the town, and
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  Speaker 1: if I didn't bring home so much money every Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night to my father, I used to be well thrashed
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  Speaker 1: with a rope's end on my bare back. Serve you
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  Speaker 1: right too, a pretty girl like you. Ah, you may
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  Speaker 1: joke about it, but it was no joe to me.
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  Speaker 1: I would gladly have done anything in an honest way
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  Speaker 1: to get my livelihood like me when I was young,
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  Speaker 1: whispered the resurrection man to his companion. Exactly, let's hear
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  Speaker 1: what the gal has to say for herself, resumed the cracksman.
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  Speaker 1: The lush has made her sentimental. She'll soon be crying drunk.
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  Speaker 1: But I was doomed, it seemed, continued the young woman
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  Speaker 1: to live in this horrible manner. When I was thirteen
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  Speaker 1: or fourteen, my father died and I was then left
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  Speaker 1: to shift for myself. I moved down into wapping and
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  Speaker 1: frequenting the long rooms belonging to the public houses there.
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  Speaker 1: I was then pretty well off because the sailors that
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  Speaker 1: went to these places always had plenty of money and
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  Speaker 1: was very generous. But I was one night suspected of
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  Speaker 1: hookassing and robbing a sailor, and though if I was
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  Speaker 1: on my deathbed, I could swear I never had a
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  Speaker 1: hand in the affair at all. I was so blown
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  Speaker 1: upon that I was forced to shift my quarters, so
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  Speaker 1: I went to a dress house in Ada Street, Hackney Road.
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  Speaker 1: Other immuniation I received there was bored and lodging, and
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  Speaker 1: I was actually a slave to the old woman that
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  Speaker 1: kept it. I was forced to walk the streets at
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  Speaker 1: night with a little girl following me to see that
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  Speaker 1: I did not run away, and all the money I
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  Speaker 1: received I was forced to give up to the old woman.
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  Speaker 1: While I was there, several other girls were turned out
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  Speaker 1: of doors and left to die, and ditches are on
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  Speaker 1: dunghills because they were no longer serviceable. All this frightened me,
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  Speaker 1: and then I was so ill used and more than
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  Speaker 1: half starved. I was forced to turn out in all weathers,
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  Speaker 1: wet or dry, hot or cold, well or ill. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I have hardly been able to drag myself out of
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  Speaker 1: bed with sickness and fatigue. But no matter out I
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  Speaker 1: must go the rain, perhaps pouring in torrents, or the
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  Speaker 1: roads knee deep in snow, and nothing but a thin
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  Speaker 1: cotton gown to wear winter and summer, Always flaunting dresses yellow,
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  Speaker 1: green and red, wet or dry, always silk stockings, and
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  Speaker 1: thin shoes, cold or warm, Always short skirts and low body,
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  Speaker 1: with strict orders not to fasten the miserable scanty shawl
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  Speaker 1: over the bosom. And then the little girl that followed
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  Speaker 1: me about was a spy with wits as sharp as needles,
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  Speaker 1: impossible to deceive her at length. I grew completely tired
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  Speaker 1: of this kind of life, and so I gave the
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  Speaker 1: little spy to slip. One fine evening, I was then sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and I came back to this neighborhood. But one day
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  Speaker 1: I met the old woman who kept the dress house,
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  Speaker 1: and she gave me in charge for stealing wearing apparel.
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  Speaker 1: The clothes I had on my back when I ran
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  Speaker 1: away from her. Always the police, the police, the police,
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  Speaker 1: when the poor and miserable are concerned, whispered the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: man to the cracksman. But did the inspector take the charge,
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  Speaker 1: demanded the coal heaver. He not only took the charge,
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  Speaker 1: answered the unfortunate girl. But the magistrate next morning committed
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  Speaker 1: me for trial, although I proved to him that the
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  Speaker 1: clothes were bought with the wages of my own prostitution.
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  Speaker 1: While I was tried at the Central Criminal Court, and
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  Speaker 1: of course acquitted, no found guilty what by an English jury?
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  Speaker 1: I can show you the newspaper. I have kept the
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  Speaker 1: report of the trial ever since. Then, By God, things
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  Speaker 1: are a thousand times worse than I thought they. Was
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  Speaker 1: ejaculated the coal whipper, striking his clenched fists violently upon
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  Speaker 1: the table at which he was seated. But the jury
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  Speaker 1: recommended me to mercy, continued the unfortunate young woman, And
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  Speaker 1: so the recorder only sentenced me to twenty one day's imprisonment.
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  Speaker 1: His lordship also read me a long lecture about the
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  Speaker 1: errors of my ways, and advised me to enter upon
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  Speaker 1: a new course of life. But he did not offer
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  Speaker 1: to give me a character, nor did he tell me
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  Speaker 1: how I was to obtain honest employment without one. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way with them beaks, cried one of the male
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  Speaker 1: inmates of the parlor. They can talk for an hour.
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  Speaker 1: But supposing you said to their recorder, my lord, will
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  Speaker 1: your wife take me into her service as a scholarly girl,
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  Speaker 1: he would have stared in astonishment at your impertinence. When
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  Speaker 1: I got out of prison, resumed the girl, who was
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  Speaker 1: thus sketching the adventures of her wretched life. I went
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  Speaker 1: into Great Bitchfield Street. My new abode was a dress
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  Speaker 1: house kept by French people. Every year the husband went
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  Speaker 1: over to France in returned with a famous supply of
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  Speaker 1: French girls, and in the meantime his wife decoyed young
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  Speaker 1: English women up from the country under pretense of obtaining
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  Speaker 1: situations as nursery governess and ladies maids for them. Many
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  Speaker 1: of these poor creatures were the daughters of clergymen and
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  Speaker 1: half pay officers in the Marines. The moment a new
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  Speaker 1: supply was obtained by these means, circulars was sent around
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  Speaker 1: to all persons that was in the habit of using
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  Speaker 1: the house. Different sums from twenty to one hundred pounds ah.
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  Speaker 1: I understand, said the coal whipper, But did you ever
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  Speaker 1: hear say how many unfortunate girls there was in London
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  Speaker 1: eighty thousand? From Titchfield Street, I went into the Almary, Westminster.
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  Speaker 1: The houses there are all occupied by fences, prigs and
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  Speaker 1: gals of the town, and the parsons of Westminster Abbey,
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  Speaker 1: who is the landlords of the houses? Does no think
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  Speaker 1: to put 'em down? Said the coal whipper. Not a bit,
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  Speaker 1: echoed the young girl, with a laugh. We had capital
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  Speaker 1: fund in the house where I lived, dog fighting, badger biding,
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  Speaker 1: and ignal day long. The police never visits the almony,
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  Speaker 1: of course, not because it's the property of the parsons.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't be so rude. This coarse jest was received
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  Speaker 1: with a shout of laughter, and the health of the
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  Speaker 1: Dean and Chapter of Westminster was drunk amongst uproars approuse
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  Speaker 1: by the thieves and loose women assembled in the dark
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  Speaker 1: house parlor. The causes which produced prostitution are as follows.
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  Speaker 1: Natural causes lecherous of inclination, irritability of temper, pride and
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  Speaker 1: love of dress, dishonesty and desire of property, indolence, accidental causes, seduction,
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  Speaker 1: inconsiderate and ill sortied marriages, inadequate rumination for female work,
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  Speaker 1: want of employment, intemperance, poverty, want of proper looking after
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  Speaker 1: their servants on the part of masters and mistresses, ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: bad example of parents, harsh and unkind treatment by parents
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  Speaker 1: and other relations, attendance on evening dancing schools and dancing parties,
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  Speaker 1: theater going, the publication of improper works and obscene prince
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  Speaker 1: the continents and reward given to vice, the small encouragement
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  Speaker 1: given to virtue. The proportions amongst those females who have
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  Speaker 1: derided from the path of virtue may be quoted as follows.
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  Speaker 1: One fourth from being servants in taverns and public houses,
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  Speaker 1: where they have been seduced by men frequenting these places
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  Speaker 1: of dissipation and temptation. One fourth from the intermixture of
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  Speaker 1: sexes in factories and those employed in workhouses and shops,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. One fourth, by procurases, are females who visit
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  Speaker 1: country towns, markets and places of worship for the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of decoying good looking girls of all classes. One fourth
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  Speaker 1: may be divided into four classes, such as being indolent
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  Speaker 1: or possessing bad tempers leaving their situations. Those who are
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  Speaker 1: driven to that awful course by young men making false promises,
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  Speaker 1: children who have been urged by their mothers to become
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  Speaker 1: prostitutes for a livelihood, daughters of clergymen have paid off officers,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, who are left portionless orphans. Well go on,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, said the coal whipper, when order was somewhat restored.
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  Speaker 1: I never was in a sentimental humor before to night,
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  Speaker 1: not for many many years, resumed the young woman. And
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know what's making me talk as I am now,
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  Speaker 1: cause you haven't had enough gin, my dear, interrupted a
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  Speaker 1: coarse looking fellow, winking to his companions. Scarcely was the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: laughter promoted by this sally beginning to subside. When a short,
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  Speaker 1: thick set, middle aged man enveloped in a huge greatcoat
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  Speaker 1: with most capricious pockets at the sides, entered the parlor,
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  Speaker 1: took his seat near the door, and called for a
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  Speaker 1: glass of hot gin and water. End of chapter sixty five,
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  Speaker 1: recording by Judy geynin