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Updated: May 19, 2025
That evening, Goodwell, Harry, and I, perambulated the streets, three abreast: Goodwell spending his money freely at the oyster-saloons; Harry full of allusions to the London Clubhouses: and myself contributing a small quota to the general entertainment. Next morning, we proceeded to business.
The value of beauty is disregarded, and the cultivation of the sense of beauty is treated as of little worth, compared with the culture of what are styled the practical faculties. Our wealth is spent in the erection of extravagant stores and shops, in the decoration of oyster-saloons, hotels, and steamboats, in the lavish and selfish adornment of drawing-rooms and chambers.
There are stores of the magnitude of bazaars, "daguerrean galleries" by hundreds, crowded groggeries and subterranean oyster-saloons, huge hotels, coffee-houses, and places of amusement; while the pavements present men of every land and colour, red, black, yellow, and white, in every variety of costume and beard, and ladies, beautiful and ugly, richly dressed.
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