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CHAPTER XXIV

A VISION OF THE NIGHT

All these were years ago little red-colored, pulpy infants, capable of being kneaded, baked, into any social form you chose.

Carlyle.

Late last night I walked along Commercial Street from Spitalfields to Whitechapel, and still continuing south, down Leman Street to the docks. And as I walked I smiled at the East End papers, which,

Commercial Street.

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