End opulence we are now considering. Some of
the people on this street are even so well-to-do as
to keep a slavey. Johnny Upright keeps one,
as I well know, she being my first acquaintance in
this particular portion of the w r orld.

[{AN EAST-END " SLAVEY."}]

To Johnny Upright s house I came, and to the
door came the slavey. Now, mark you, her posi
tion in life was pitiable and contemptible, but it was
with pity and contempt that she looked at me.
She evinced a plain desire that our conversation
should be short. It was Sunday, and Johnny Up-

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