Note 78 — Chapter Four
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It seemed a strange inverted world, that in which I lived those terrible weeks, the world of the streets and brothel. It was the same, and yet not the same as the world of business and the world of politics. I heard of much the same people in the house of ill-fame as those of whom you hear in caucuses, in law courts and on ’change; but all were judged by a different standard, and their relative importance was altogether changed. Mr. Stead.—“Pall Mall Gazette.”