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Page 52
... fall trade . It requires twenty times the municipal energy to keep order in New York that it does in any city from Port- land to San Francisco . But still you pursue me with the question , and I am to answer it by telling you that there ...
... fall trade . It requires twenty times the municipal energy to keep order in New York that it does in any city from Port- land to San Francisco . But still you pursue me with the question , and I am to answer it by telling you that there ...
Page 69
... falling from exhaustion ; recovering herself again , until after a while she reached the outskirts of the city and passed on into the country road . It seemed so familiar , she kept on the road , and she saw in the distance a light in ...
... falling from exhaustion ; recovering herself again , until after a while she reached the outskirts of the city and passed on into the country road . It seemed so familiar , she kept on the road , and she saw in the distance a light in ...
Page 71
... falling into these half - hidden slime- pits . How deep they were , or how vile , or how hard to get out of , we are not told ; but the whole scene is so far distant in the past that we have not half as much inter- est in this statement ...
... falling into these half - hidden slime- pits . How deep they were , or how vile , or how hard to get out of , we are not told ; but the whole scene is so far distant in the past that we have not half as much inter- est in this statement ...
Page 89
... Fall River and at Lowell sometimes stop for lack of demand , and for lack of workmen , but this million - roomed factory of sin and death never stops , never slackens a band , never ar- rests a spindle . The great wheel of that factory ...
... Fall River and at Lowell sometimes stop for lack of demand , and for lack of workmen , but this million - roomed factory of sin and death never stops , never slackens a band , never ar- rests a spindle . The great wheel of that factory ...
Page 92
... fall , or rubbing his knee to relieve it from having been hit on the side of a car , as some “ gen- tleman , " with furs around his neck and gauntlets lined with lamb's wool , shoved him off , saying : " You miser- able rat ! " Yet ...
... fall , or rubbing his knee to relieve it from having been hit on the side of a car , as some “ gen- tleman , " with furs around his neck and gauntlets lined with lamb's wool , shoved him off , saying : " You miser- able rat ! " Yet ...
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