James Greenwood

“ But they can't trust 'em," pursued the awful creature, venturing to take the steadying grasp from the stone coping that she might clap both her skinny hands in gleeful malice, "they can't trust em, you heard that. They never trust 'em further than they can see 'em. ”

“ Who cheated and plundered me but you, you thief" - (this to the cadaverous gentleman) - "and the set over there, till I hadn't a skirt to call my own."
"Never mind who cheated you; that's nothing to do with them clothes what's only lent you," growled the bully. "If yer don't know how to behave in 'em, come on home and get out of 'em. It isn't likely that this woman who is sent with you to look after you is going back to tell 'em that you're slipped off;" ”

“ If the reader can imagine a man whose visage was a blending of the characteristics that distinguish the dog-stealer, the area sneak, and the fighting man, he may form some idea of the cadaverous, vicious-looking individual in question. ”

“ It must be done purely for the sake of the seclusion and quiet that, as a lodging, are afforded by Waterloo Bridge as compared with London and Blackfriars - though, indeed, it is hard to understand how a human being reduced to such a deplorable strait can for a moment hesitate between the open air and the cold stones, and a refuge in a. ”

“ That was the shadder, that woman that was with her. They call 'em that because they sticks so close to 'em, and never leave the track of 'em, not for a minute. They're no more their own mistresses than galley-slaves are ”