The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 70: what you’re looking at

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

62 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. That the rich, if unselfish, gave money to the poor to improve their dwellings, and if selfish tried to remove the eyesores, filth and crime, which existed so near to their own doors. He would discover that gradually, but more particularly lately, the rich divorced themselves from their poorer brethren, whose needs became neglected because unseen; that the two went their separate ways, and drifted farther and farther apart, until at present they had almost forgotten one another’s existence. Then, probably, he would seek the rich, and discover to his surprise that they were not un- charitable, and were the most enterprising people in the world. He would remember to have seen them everywhere in all the poor streets and back slums of foreign cities. He would be told of their mighty grants to the poor of other countries, and their untold exertions to better the condition of the savage. He would hear them describe such and such a foreign city as poor and miserable, though they would not mention the far greater poverty and squalor of the Kast of London. If he went into society, he would be led to believe that the City bounded London in the Kast, that no one had ever been further in that direction than the Tower, that the vast outlying districts were never mentioned; and if he stated that he had travelled in the unknown region, he would be frowned at as though guilty of a social fault. Did he force the subject of the East upon the denizens of the West, Gomichooks.co m