The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 32: what you’re looking at

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THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT astorians have covered with faleome praises, but who was a scandal and a shame to human nature as well as s scourge and s curse to the human race,—it was in his time, we say, that the working man’s fathily turned out ‘from their garret-home into the in- clemency and houseless desolation of the open streets! And now the oft foreshadowed doom was come at last—the long foreseen consummation was present— and the heart brakea mother of the crying, starving, | and atti children found herself fated to teach them how to yt: In Whitaball dia they take their stand on this afternoon of their initiative in the arts and devices of mendicancy.* But an initiative only was it indeed : fer nature—pure, unadultersted nature—traced that profound and ineffable sorrow upon the countenance of the rapther, and gave that wee- ‘aspect to’ the“children. -. Art was'not néeded thére:” no — 0 Godt—se—the some was all too tris’ bed 'll:tho ie 4 ¥ | i a | a | % v 6 > =; ee i er - Ybanis the great thoroughfare of Whitehall dia Melmoth take her ‘stand, with the babe in her arms—ihe eldest boy and the girl on ber right hand, and the youngest boy on her left. ‘ There—in that thoro bfare, | where ‘a ‘Kibg had once been so righteously” put to "death’ for making war on his people—that same King who i is now falsely called a r,—there was it that ‘the working man’s wife ildrew pldced thettiselves to supplicate alms of Oo he psn Men of Raglinat how many thousands ad ol --how many hundreds of thousands of ye have had your families go down into the streets to beg? Rise early—toil hard ‘all day—eat of the scantiest and ‘drink of the poorest the while—go to-bed late—rise early’ "throligh the same wretched routine ‘of crushing ne and semi-starvation day after day, —and what is the result? Ye cannot keep your- selves und your families from misery and wretched- (14079 ah ett et. tee, ~=No— destitution and then beggary or the _ FD ce COL DOO (CO