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She had seen no signs of squalor or dissipation since she entered Canada, and had almost fancied that they did not exist. "I suppose the Chinese and other aliens live there?" "They do," was the dry answer. "I'm no sure, however, that they're the worst." "But one understands that you haven't a criminal population." "We have folk who're on the fringe of it, only we see that they live all together.
Let us hear another and a very different stamp of man. On the Protestant side, neatness; cheerfulness; industry; education; continual aspiration, at least, after better things. On the Catholic side, dirt; disease; ignorance; squalor; and misery.
The spot in either city had a certain similitude and correspondence each with each: at the first he had consummated his despair of human destinies he had dared to forget the Providence of God he had arrogated his fate to himself: by the first bridge he had taken his resolve; by the last he stood in awe at the result stood no less poor no less abject equally in rags and squalor; but was his crest as haughty and his eye as fearless, for was his conscience as free and his honour as unstained?
To the casual observer the military element is not noticeable in the home life of the common people, as they are rapt in their work, very industrious and get their pleasure talking to their ever present babies, or tending some little plants, even if squalor surrounds them. But the word of the ones higher up is absolute law to them.
So it was that, halfway on the road, Phaon turned in to the tavern of the decaying little town of Gabii, gave his team to the hostler, and rested himself by fuming over the squalor and poor cooking of the inn. Agias secured the fast Numidian from the stables of Gallus, and was soon away.
It may be imagined, as the hapless prisoners afterwards poured in not only from the peninsula, but from more distant regions, whither they had been sent by their cruel taskmasters, some to relate their sufferings in the horrible dungeons of Spain, where they had long been expiating the crime of defending their fatherland, others to relate their experiences as chained galley-slaves in the naval service of their bitterest enemies, many with shorn heads and long beards like Turks, many with crippled limbs, worn out with chains and blows, and the squalor of disease and filth that the hatred for Spain and Rome did not glow any less fiercely within the republic, nor the hereditary love for the Nassaus, to whose generosity these poor victims were indebted for their deliverance, become fainter, in consequence of these revelations.
As seen from the Hoogly, when one first arrives, it exhibits a strong array of fine public buildings; but a passage of a few rods, diverging from the main thoroughfare, brings the visitor upon the dirty streets, the mean and narrow houses, and general squalor of the native population. The Burning Ghat, where cremation is going on at all hours of the day, is the first place the stranger visits.
But it bears upon the question that ugliness and squalor upon the main road will appeal to the more prosperous for remedy with far more vigour than when they are stowed compactly in a slum. Enough has been said to demonstrate that old "town" and "city" will be, in truth, terms as obsolete as "mail coach."
It is odd enough to read, in the chronicles of those days, that amid all this suffering and squalor there was drawn a strict line between "the quality" and those who had no claim to be patricians.
In some respects Chicago deserves the name City of Contrasts, just as the United States is the Land of Contrasts; and in no way is this more marked than in the difference between its business and its residential quarters. In the one height, narrowness, noise, monotony, dirt, sordid squalor, pretentiousness; in the other light, space, moderation, homelikeness.
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