The Vice Society
“Today two more would be killed.
It was still dark when Mrs Colliver left her house at five o’clock that morning. The streets were crisp with frost and the city as darkly silent as a cemetery. There was a cab at the stand outside her premises and she had travelled east through Temple Bar, along Fleet-street, up Ludgate-hill, past the cathedral, down Watling-street and south to Upper-Thames-street. No doubt the London reader will have already guessed the rest of her route: further east until she ...was beneath the blackened column of the Monument, then south to the shore of the river and Billingsgate fish market.
As ever, it was a striking place on that dark winter morning: the leaping gas flares animating all beneath their pale and sickly light; the roaring, ruddy-cheeked vendors; the thicket of masts by the wharf; the scores of servants seeking the best prices; and the fish itself – a silvery slick-slithering array of turbot, sole, plaice, mackerel, eels, salmon and sundry monstrosities of the deep.MoreLess
It was still dark when Mrs Colliver left her house at five o’clock that morning. The streets were crisp with frost and the city as darkly silent as a cemetery. There was a cab at the stand outside her premises and she had travelled east through Temple Bar, along Fleet-street, up Ludgate-hill, past the cathedral, down Watling-street and south to Upper-Thames-street. No doubt the London reader will have already guessed the rest of her route: further east until she ...was beneath the blackened column of the Monument, then south to the shore of the river and Billingsgate fish market.
As ever, it was a striking place on that dark winter morning: the leaping gas flares animating all beneath their pale and sickly light; the roaring, ruddy-cheeked vendors; the thicket of masts by the wharf; the scores of servants seeking the best prices; and the fish itself – a silvery slick-slithering array of turbot, sole, plaice, mackerel, eels, salmon and sundry monstrosities of the deep.MoreLess
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