sw-e-ep

Updated: May 29, 2025

We can only entreat our readers not to imagine, because we have attempted to extract some amusement from a charity dinner, that we are at all disposed to underrate, either the excellence of the benevolent institutions with which London abounds, or the estimable motives of those who support them. ‘Now ladies, up in the sky-parlour: only once a year, if you please!’ ‘Sweep—sweep—sw-e-ep!’

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people