The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 76: what you’re looking at

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68 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. Lastly, the girls. What are they like? Are they the types of purity and sweetness that poets love to talk of ?—made by the Creator to guide the rougher natures of men unto the realm of light and love? Is this group of factory girls dressed up in ribbons and feathers of garish, screaming colours, shouting foul words, and laughing loud at every man they pass, likely to refine a home? Is this other group of shabbily-dressed girls, with care and labour stamped upon their injured faces, likely to do more than provide bare crusts for the little ones at home ? | Yes, the Whitechapel Road is not a tempting place for a refined Londoner or foreigner, for it is a place where innocence no longer dwells; where the young in years are old in knowiedge, though, alas! not of good, but of evil. GComicboo <S co m