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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER XVIII
18/37

How is it now-- ?" "Gain and the Pleasure Cities! Or slavery--unthanked, unhonoured, slavery." "Slavery!" he said.
"Slavery." "You don't mean to say that human beings are chattels." "Worse.

That is what I want you to know, what I want you to see.

I know you do not know.

They will keep things from you, they will take you presently to a Pleasure City.

But you have noticed men and women and children in pale blue canvas, with thin yellow faces and dull eyes ?" "Everywhere." "Speaking a horrible dialect, coarse and weak." "I have heard it." "They are the slaves--your slaves.


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