THE EAST END
Barking, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Poplar, Bromley, Stepney, Bow and Bethnal Green, the quarters inhabited by navvies, Jews, Cockneys and stevedores from the docks, poverty-stricken and downtrodden people—
everything equally dull, grimy, bare and unending, intersected by dirty channels of deafening traffic, and the whole way equally cheerless. And in the south, in the northwest, in the north-east again the same thing, miles and miles of grimy houses, where the whole street consists of nothing but a vast horizontal tenement, factories, gasometers,
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