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 ¬— She was a beautiful creature, not more than seventeen years of age, and hired for the pur- pose by the gang. — The paralytic patient, whose sledge stood in the passage, was cutting his capers in the way to it, as indeed he very well might, having been a rope-dancer at one of the smaller theatres, from which he had lately been discharged, on his being discovered picking a pocket behind the scenes — The pregnant lady was among the last, as her pillow had not been carefully adjusted, and she had to pay the mothers of the six children who were going out with her, as they always attended to receive the ready money for the day. ¬My felonious friend now made me a signal to be gone, as my disguise, he said, might perhaps be discovered, which would not only be ruinous to him but might be dangerous to myself. ¬For the evils I had witnessed, to some extent and in some shape or other, there is, perhaps, no remedy in a large city, and we ought not to ¬N 3 surlier ¬