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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.

CHAPTER III
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The Cyprian, still exercising her allurements, lingers and decays until persecution loses the point of its arrow, and drops from the persecutor's hand, grasping more hardly after money, and opening from the clenched attitude of revenge.

Then, to conclude the picture, there are youths living upon the open infamy of easy-hearted women, who disgrace and ruin themselves without the walls, in order to pamper the appetite and humour the whims of a favourite within, thus sacrificing one victim to another.

Partners carrying on trade in the world, communing with their incarcerated partners in durance vile.

Misery and extravagance, rude joy and frantic fear, with more passions than the celebrated Collins ever drew, and with more scenes, adventures, and vicissitudes, than ever Jonathan Wild or any other Jonathan exhibited." "Excellent description," exclaimed Bob.
"And you shall have ocular demonstration of its absolute existence; nay, this sketch might serve for many other places of confinement, the Fleet, &c.

They are like the streets of the Metropolis, constantly varying in their company, according to entrances and exits of their visitors." "This, however," continued the Hon.


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