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Updated: May 17, 2025
Every house is alight; the narrow sidewalks and filthy streets are full of people. Miserable little children, with sin-stamped faces, dart about like rats; little ones who ought to be in their cribs shift for themselves, and sleep on cellar doors and areas, and under carts; a few vendors are abroad with their wares, but the most of the traffic going on is of a different description.
It was not in the posture, grand as that was, not in the sin-stamped brow, rough with wrinkles like a storm-chafed sea, not in the wiry hair, gray and half rising in haggard locks, like adders that in vain try to escape the foot that treads them down, nor in the mouth, for that was hid behind the impotent guard of the upraised arm and clenched fist, but in those painted eyes, into which, all-fascinated, we ever gazed, reading in them all that crouching terror, all the punishment of that spectral presence, all the poignant consciousness of his fate to whom such things could happen, to whom already his victims rise again,
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