The Mysteries of London; or, Revelations of the British Metropolis — page 116: what you’re looking at

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114 MYSTERIES criptions, was’ diminutive, althou zh it evinced that | of a full grown woman. Her features, which — bore the traces of intemperance, gave some slight indications of beauty which had been’ cankered in the bud, and so contaminated and perverted, that the traces which it left were scarcely percep- tible. Her eyes, the lids of which were slightly inflamed, had a boldness of expression, which evinced that modesty had always been a stranger te them; and when she spoke, her mouth appear-- ed to open convulsively; her voics was broken, and her enunciation difficult. Her name was Louisa, but among her companions she was called Loo the consumptive. ; The second couple was the eomplete. reverse of the onejast described. It was composed ofa tall, masculine woman, with a forbidding, inso- lent, and vulgar aspect, and a diminutive young lad. The woman was dressed in a bonnet, a man’s great coat and boots. EKvery portion of this strange uniform gave evidence of Jong service ; her bonnet. above all, bere numerous marks of violence, which might have preceeded from its” having been exposed to showres Of rain, or perhaps to showers of blows. Her name was Madga; she | was upwards of forty years of age, and smoked a short pipe, which bad a most capacious bowl— — Her cavalier was no other than cur friend Snail, the brother of Loo the consumptive. Although this quartette was not one of the most brilliant ain appearancs, its entraneé into — ‘The Pipe and Pot caused quite 2 commotion,” Tne tavern keeper, Peg Witch, as horrid a looxk- ing creature as any that ever sprang from London — comicbooks.c m>