Household Words (1852) [ Practices ]
… on the straw within. There were flaming gas-lights, oranges, oysters, paper lanterns, butchers and grocers, bakers and public-houses, over the way; there were omnibuses rattling by; there were ballad-singers, street cries, street … not peculiar to a prison or a lunatic asylum of the old school, was a newspaper, which was being read by a demented publican. The same oppressive silence -- except when the publican complained, in tones of the bitterest satire, against one of the keepers, or (said the publican) "attendant, as …
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