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Updated: May 28, 2025
He went straight to a slopshop and bought as neat and reasonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear. He said to himself, but at his conscience "I know it's wrong; but it would be wrong not to do it; and two wrongs do not make a right." This satisfied him, and made his heart light. Perhaps it will also satisfy the reader if he can make out what it means.
To the right of the alley the barber had affixed his signboard, close above the base of his pole; to the left a flanking slopshop dangled a row of cast-off suits, while immediately overhead was nailed a board painted over with ornate flourishes and the legend "G. Goodfellow. Carpenter and House-Decorator, &c. Repairs Neatly Executed. Instruction in the Violin. Funerals at the Shortest Notice.
At the first slopshop I encountered in the suburbs of the town, I got a carpet-bag and a clerical-looking suit. At the first easy shaving-shop I passed, I had my hair cropped and my whiskers taken off.
So that as soon as my comrade was decently array'd at the first slopshop we came to, 'twas high time to seek an inn. We found quarters at "The Horn," and sought the travelers' room, and a fire to dry ourselves. In this room, at the window, were two men who look'd lazily up at our entrance.
He kept a stinking slopshop in Bishopsgate Street, and a still more stinking schism-shop in Shoreditch." "Salvation free, gratis, for nothing, and five per cent, discount for ready money." Louis was amused, but profoundly uncomfortable. This particular detail of Tyson's biography was not one of the things he knew; if it had been, he would naturally have avoided the most distant allusion to it.
Stuffing himself with Chinese sweets and hankering after puppy-pie, like the bargees on the Thames." "Oh, does he?" cried Smith. "Who ate the fricassee of rats?" "Oh, bother all that!" I said. "Here, Blacksmith, lend me your glass a minute; it's stronger than mine." "Ho, ho!" laughed Barkins. "His! The wapping whacker! Why, it's a miserable slopshop second-hand thing. You should have had mine.
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