The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 69: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

61 BOOK III. THE ‘‘ YEAR OF GRACE,” 1888. CHAPTER IL. WHITECHAPEL ROAD BY - DAY. J Fa foreigner were now to visit this great metropolis with the object of studying it as a vast social problem, he would find it, broadly speaking, divided - into three parts—the abode of wealth, the world’s mart, and the abode of poverty. Further, he would discover that the abode of wealth knows nothing of the abode of poverty, scarcely recognises its existence, and even tries to take from it the common name of London; that the West would if it could ignore the East, and succeeds in suppressing all knowledge of the appear- ance, conditions of life, and difficulties of its unfortu- - nate brother. : If he hunted up old books, and was interested in archeology, he would see that this used not to be. That wealth and poverty once built together, that _ the poor man could approach the rich, and that ~*~ benefit resulted to the former from the contact. (CONNIE OOO KS.EOnA)