No, hang it! that's too much to make any man confess to! I'll prove my innocence by not reforming!" So sanitary reform is thrust out of sight, simply because its necessity is too humiliating to the pride of all, too frightful to the consciences of many.
Tom went to Trebooze.
"Mr.Trebooze, you are a man of position in the county, and own some houses in Aberalva.

Don't you think you could use your influence in this matter ?" "Own some houses?
Yes,"-- and Mr.Trebooze consigned the said cottages to a variety of unmentionable places; "cost me more in rates than they bring in in rent, even if I get the rent paid.

I should like to get a six-pounder, and blow the whole lot into the sea.

Cholera coming, eh?
D'ye think it will he there before Michaelmas ?" "I do." "Pity I can't clear 'em out before Michaelmas.

Else I'd have ejected the lot, and pulled the houses down." "I think something should be done meanwhile, though, towards cleansing them." "-- -- Let 'em cleanse them themselves! Soap's cheap enough with your -- -- free trade, ain't it! No, sir! That sort of talk will do well enough for my Lord Minchampstead, sir, the old money-lending Jew! ---- but gentlemen, sir, gentlemen, that are half-ruined with free trade, and your Whig policy, sir, you must give 'em back their rights before they can afford to throw away their money on cottages.