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The Mysteries of London
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A classic English-language work about crime, poverty, wealth, secret identities and the divided city.
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The Mysteries of London
The Mysteries of London explores crime, poverty, wealth, secret identities and the divided city. The work combines memorable characters, social observation and a sustained conflict between private desire, public expectation and moral choice.
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George W. M. Reynolds died in 1879, and The Mysteries of London was first published or composed in 1844. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.
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The Mysteries of London
George W. M. Reynolds
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Between the 10th and 13th centuries Civilisation withdrew from Egypt and Syria, rested for a little space at Constantinople, and then passed away to the western climes of Europe.
From that period these climes have been the grand laboratory in which Civilisation has wrought out refinement in every art and every science, and whence it has diffused its benefits over the earth. It has taught commerce to plough the waves of every sea with the adventurous keel; it has enabled handfuls of disciplined warriors to subdue the mighty armaments of oriental princes; and its daring sons have planted its banners amidst the eternal ice of the poles. It has cut down the primitive forests of America; carried trade into the interior of Africa; annihilated time and distance by the aid of steam; and now contemplates how to force a passage through Suez and Panama.
The bounties of Civilisation are at present almost everywhere recognised.
Nevertheless, for centuries has Civilisation established, and for centuries will it maintain, its headquarters in the great cities of Western Europe: and with Civilisation does Vice go hand-in-hand.
Amongst these cities there is one in which contrasts of a strange nature exist. The most unbounded wealth is the neighbour of the most hideous poverty; the most gorgeous pomp is placed in strong relief by the most deplorable squalor; the most seducing luxury is only separated by a narrow wall from the most appalling misery.
The crumbs which fall from the tables of the rich would appear delicious viands to starving millions; and yet those millions obtain them not!
In that city there are in all districts five prominent buildings: the church, in which the pious pray; the gin-palace, to which the wretched poor resort to drown their sorrows; the pawnbroker's, where miserable creatures pledge their raiment, and their children's raiment, even unto the last rag, to obtain the means of purchasing food, and--alas! too often--intoxicating drink; the prison, where the victims of a vitiated condition of society expiate the crimes to which they have been driven by starvation and despair; and the workhouse, to which the destitute, the aged, and the friendless hasten to lay down their aching heads--and die!
And, congregated together in one district of this city, in an assemblage of palaces, whence emanate by night the delicious sounds of music; within whose walls the foot treads upon rich carpets; whose sideboards are covered with plate; whose cellars contain the choicest nectar of the temperate and torrid zones; and whose inmates recline beneath velvet canopies, feast at each meal upon the collated produce of four worlds, and scarcely have to breathe a wish before they find it gratified.
Alas! how appalling are these contrasts!
And, as if to hide its infamy from the face of heaven, this city wears upon its brow an everlasting cloud, which even the fresh fan of the morning fails to disperse for a single hour each day!
And in one delicious spot of that mighty city--whose thousand towers point upwards, from horizon to horizon, as an index of its boundless magnitude--stands the dwelling of one before whom all knees bow, and towards whose royal footstool none dares approach save with downcast eyes and subdued voice. The entire world showers its bounties upon the head of that favoured mortal; a nation of millions does homage to the throne whereon that being is exalted. The dominion of this personage so supremely blest extends over an empire on which the sun never sets--an empire greater than Jenghiz Khan achieved or Mohammed conquered.
This is the parent of a mighty nation; and yet around that parent's seat the children crave for bread!
Women press their little ones to their dried-up breasts in the agonies of despair; young delicate creatures waste their energies in toil from the dawn of day till long past the hour of midnight, perpetuating their unavailing labour from the hour of the brilliant sun to that when the dim candle sheds its light around the attic's naked walls; and even the very pavement groans beneath the weight of grief which the poor are doomed to drag over the rough places of this city of sad contrasts.
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CHAPTER I.
Sumário
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- 01Full text
- 02PROLOGUE.
- 03CHAPTER I.
- 04THE OLD HOUSE IN SMITHFIELD.
- 05CHAPTER II.
- 06THE MYSTERIES OF THE OLD HOUSE.
- 07CHAPTER III.
- 08THE TRAP-DOOR.
- 09CHAPTER IV.
- 10THE TWO TREES.
- 11CHAPTER V.
- 12ELIGIBLE ACQUAINTANCES.
- 13CHAPTER VI.
- 14MRS. ARLINGTON.
- 15CHAPTER VII.
- 16THE BOUDOIR.
- 17CHAPTER VIII.
- 18THE CONVERSATION.
- 19CHAPTER IX.
- 20A CITY MAN.--SMITHFIELD SCENES.
- 21CHAPTER X.
- 22THE FRAIL ONE'S NARRATIVE.
- 23CHAPTER XI.
- 24CHAPTER XII.
- 25THE BANK-NOTES.
- 26CHAPTER XIII.
- 27THE HELL.
- 28CHAPTER XIV.
- 29THE STATION-HOUSE.
- 30CHAPTER XV.
- 31THE POLICE-OFFICE.
- 32CHAPTER XVI.
- 33THE BEGINNING OF MISFORTUNES.
- 34CHAPTER XVII.
- 35A DEN OF HORRORS.
- 36CHAPTER XVIII.
- 37THE BOOZING-KEN.
- 38CHAPTER XIX.
- 39MORNING.
- 40CHAPTER XX.
- 41THE VILLA.
- 42CHAPTER XXI.
- 43ATROCITY.
- 44CHAPTER XXII.
- 45A WOMAN'S MIND.
- 46CHAPTER XXIII.
- 47THE OLD HOUSE IN SMITHFIELD AGAIN.
- 48THE THIEVES' ALPHABET.
- 49CHORUS.
- 50CHORUS.
- 51CHORUS.
- 52CHORUS.
- 53CHAPTER XXIV.
- 54CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
- 55CHAPTER XXV.
- 56THE ENCHANTRESS.
- 57CHAPTER XXVI.
- 58NEWGATE.
- 59CHAPTER XXVII.
- 60THE REPUBLICAN AND THE RESURRECTION MAN.
- 61CHAPTER XXVIII.
- 62THE DUNGEON.
- 63CHAPTER XXIX.
- 64THE BLACK CHAMBER.
- 65CHAPTER XXX.
- 66THE 26TH OF NOVEMBER.
- 67CHAPTER XXXI.
- 68EXPLANATIONS.
- 69CHAPTER XXXII.
- 70THE OLD BAILEY.
- 71CHAPTER XXXIII.
- 72ANOTHER DAY AT THE OLD BAILEY.
- 73CHAPTER XXXIV.
- 74THE LESSON INTERRUPTED.
- 75CHAPTER XXXV.
- 76WHITECROSS-STREET PRISON.
- 77CHAPTER XXXVI.
- 78THE EXECUTION.
- 79CHAPTER XXXVII.
- 80THE LAPSE OF TWO YEARS.
- 81CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- 82THE VISIT.
- 83EUGENE.
- 84CHAPTER XXXIX.
- 85THE DREAM.
- 86EUGENE.
- 87CHAPTER XL.
- 88THE SPECULATION.--AN UNWELCOME MEETING.
- 89CHAPTER XLI.
- 90MR. GREENWOOD.
- 91CHAPTER XLII.
- 92CHAPTER XLIII.
- 93THE MUMMY.
- 94THE BODY-SNATCHER'S SONG.
- 95CHAPTER XLIV.
- 96THE BODY-SNATCHERS.
- 97CHAPTER XLV.
- 98THE FRUITLESS SEARCH.
- 99CHAPTER XLVI.
- 100RICHARD AND ISABELLA.
- 101LONDON.
- 102CHAPTER XLVII.
- 103ELIZA SYDNEY.
- 104CHAPTER XLVIII.
- 105MR. GREENWOOD'S VISITORS.
- 106CHAPTER XLIX.
- 107THE DOCUMENT.
- 108CHAPTER L.
- 109THE DRUGGED WINE-GLASS.
- 110CHAPTER LI.
- 111DIANA AND ELIZA.
- 112CHAPTER LII.
- 113THE BED OF SICKNESS.
- 114CHAPTER LIII.
- 115ACCUSATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS.
- 116CHAPTER LIV.
- 117THE BANKER.
- 118CHAPTER LV.
- 119MISERRIMA!!!
- 120CHAPTER LVI.
- 121THE ROAD TO RUIN.
- 122CHAPTER LVII.
- 123THE LAST RESOURCE.
- 124CHAPTER LVIII.
- 125NEW YEAR'S DAY.
- 126THE TREATMENT OF THE WORKHOUSE.
- 127CHAPTER LIX.
- 128THE ROYAL LOVERS.
- 129CHAPTER LX.
- 130REVELATIONS.
- 131CHAPTER LXI.
- 132CHAPTER LXII.
- 133THE RESURRECTION MAN'S HISTORY.
- 134CHAPTER LXIII.
- 135THE PLOT.
- 136CHAPTER LXIV.
- 137THE COUNTERPLOT.
- 138CHAPTER LXV.
- 139THE WRONGS AND CRIMES OF THE POOR.
- 140CHAPTER LXVI.
- 141THE RESULT OF MARKHAM'S ENTERPRISE.
- 142CHAPTER LXVII.
- 143SCENES IN FASHIONABLE LIFE.
- 144CHAPTER LXVIII.
- 145THE ELECTION.
- 146CHAPTER LXIX.
- 147CHAPTER LXX.
- 148THE IMAGE, THE PICTURE, AND THE STATUE.
- 149CHAPTER LXXI.
- 150THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
- 151CHAPTER LXXII.
- 152THE BLACK CHAMBER AGAIN.
- 153BARON RUPERTO,
- 154CHAPTER LXXIII.
- 155CAPTAIN DAPPER AND SIR CHERRY BOUNCE.
- 156CHAPTER LXXIV.
- 157THE MEETING.
- 158CHAPTER LXXV.
- 159THE CRISIS.
- 160CHAPTER LXXVI.
- 161COUNT ALTERONI'S FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS.
- 162CHAPTER LXXVII.
- 163A WOMAN'S SECRET.
- 164CHAPTER LXXVIII.
- 165MARIAN.
- 166CHAPTER LXXIX.
- 167THE BILL.--A FATHER.
- 168CHAPTER LXXX.
- 169THE REVELATION.
- 170CHAPTER LXXXI.
- 171THE MYSTERIOUS INSTRUCTIONS.
- 172CHAPTER LXXXII.
- 173THE MEDICAL MAN.
- 174CHAPTER LXXXIII.
- 175THE BLACK CHAMBER AGAIN.
- 176DUKE OF CASTELCICALA,
- 177CHAPTER LXXXIV.
- 178THE SECOND EXAMINATION.--COUNT ALTERONI.
- 179THE POET TO HIS WIFE.
- 180CHAPTER LXXXV.
- 181A FRIEND IN NEED.
- 182CHAPTER LXXXVI.
- 183THE OLD HAG.
- 184CHAPTER LXXXVII.
- 185THE PROFESSOR OF MESMERISM.
- 186CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
- 187THE FIGURANTE.
- 188CHAPTER LXXXIX.
- 189THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER.
- 190CHAPTER XC.
- 191MARKHAM'S OCCUPATIONS.
- 192CHAPTER XCI.
- 193THE TRAGEDY.
- 194CHAPTER XCII.
- 195THE ITALIAN VALET.
- 196CHAPTER XCIII.
- 197NEWS FROM CASTELCICALA.
- 198CHAPTER XCIV.
- 199THE HOME OFFICE.
- 200CHAPTER XCV.
- 201THE FORGER AND THE ADULTERESS.
- 202CHAPTER XCVI.
- 203THE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT'S LEVEE.
- 204CHAPTER XCVII.
- 205ANOTHER NEW YEAR'S DAY.
- 206CHAPTER XCVIII.
- 207DARK PLOTS AND SCHEMES.
- 208CHAPTER XCIX.
- 209THE BUFFER'S HISTORY.
- 210CHAPTER C.
- 211THE MYSTERIES OF THE GROUND-FLOOR ROOMS.
- 212CHAPTER CI.
- 213THE WIDOW.
- 214CHAPTER CII.
- 215THE REVEREND VISITOR.
- 216CHAPTER CIII.
- 217HOPES AND FEARS.
- 218CHAPTER CIV.
- 219FEMALE COURAGE.
- 220CHAPTER CV.
- 221THE COMBAT.
- 222CHAPTER CVI.
- 223THE GRAVE-DIGGER.
- 224CHAPTER CVII.
- 225A DISCOVERY.
- 226CHAPTER CVIII.
- 227THE EXHUMATION.
- 228CHAPTER CIX.
- 229THE STOCK-BROKER.
- 230CHAPTER CX.
- 231CHAPTER CXI.
- 232A SCENE AT MR. CHICHESTER'S HOUSE.
- 233CHAPTER CXII.
- 234VIOLA.
- 235CHAPTER CXIII.
- 236THE LOVERS.
- 237CHAPTER CXIV.
- 238THE CONTENTS OF THE PACKET.
- 239CHAPTER CXV.
- 240THE TREASURE.--A NEW IDEA.
- 241CHAPTER CXVI.
- 242CHAPTER CXVII.
- 243THE RATTLESNAKE.
- 244CHAPTER CXVIII.
- 245THE TWO MAIDENS.
- 246CHAPTER CXIX.
- 247POOR ELLEN!
- 248CHAPTER CXX.
- 249THE FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
- 250CHAPTER CXXI.
- 251HIS CHILD!
- 252CHAPTER CXXII.
- 253A CHANGE OF FORTUNE.
- 254CHAPTER CXXIII.
- 255ARISTOCRATIC MORALS.
- 256CHAPTER CXXIV.
- 257THE INTRIGUES OF A DEMIREP.
- 258CHAPTER CXXV.
- 259THE RECONCILIATION.
- 260CHAPTER CXXVI.
- 261THE RECTOR OF SAINT DAVID'S.
- 262CHAPTER CXXVII.
- 263BLANDISHMENTS.
- 264CHAPTER CXXVIII.
- 265TEMPTATION.
- 266CHAPTER CXXIX.
- 267THE FALL.
- 268CHAPTER CXXX.
- 269MENTAL STRUGGLES.
- 270CHAPTER CXXXI.
- 271THE STATUE.
- 272CHAPTER CXXXII.
- 273AN OLD FRIEND.
- 274CHAPTER CXXXIII.
- 275SKILLIGALEE'S HISTORY.
- 276CHAPTER CXXXIV.
- 277THE PALACE IN THE HOLY LAND.
- 278THE GIPSY'S HOME.
- 279CHAPTER CXXXV.
- 280THE PROPOSAL.--UNEXPECTED MEETINGS.
- 281CHAPTER CXXXVI.
- 282THE SECRET TRIBUNAL.
- 283EPILOGUE TO VOLUME I.
- 284LONDON.
- 285MYSTERIES OF LONDON.
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