Show A night scene in london under this heading headin mr dickens describes de te ribes in household words what ho he witnessed one night outside the white chapel workhouse sion tion on the ath of last november 1 I the tile conductor of this journal accompanied by a friend well known to the public accidentally strayed into white chapel it was a mise miserable even ins in v very ery dark very muddy and raining hard there ter e are many woeful sights in that part cart of london and it has been well known to me in most moat of its aspects for many years we had bad forgotten the mud and rain in slowly walkin waikin walking along aing and looking about us when we found found ourselves at eight I 1 0 clock lefore before the workhouse crouched against the wall of the workhouse in the dark street on the muddy pave ment stones with the rain raining upon them were five bundles of rags they were motionless and had no resemblance to the human form five great beel beehives lives ilves covered with rags five dead bodies taken out of graves maves tied neck and heels and covered with rau rag rags s would have looked like those five bundles upon which the rain rained down in the public street 11 what is this said my compan companion lon ion what is this some miserable people satt shut out of the casual ward I 1 think said L I 1 mr dickens then describes his enquiries in the workhouse lie ile found that the women were shut bilut 0 ont out t simply because the house was full we went to the he ragged bundle nearest the workhouse door and I 1 touched it no movement replying 1 I gently gentle shook it the rags began to be slowly stirred within and by little and little a head was the head of a y oung young woman of three or four and twenty as I 1 should judge gaunt with want and foul with dirt 7 but not no t naturally ugly tell us said 1 I stooping dowin why are you lying here reBe he cerebe seibe cause I 1 cant get into the he workhouse she spoke in a faint dul dull I 1 way and had no curiosity or interest left she looked dreamily at the black sky and the falling failing rain but never looked at me or my companion were you here last night yes all last night and the ni night ht afore too do you know any of these ot others hersy hersl 1 I know her next but one she was here last night and she told me she come out of essex I 1 dont know no more dofher you were here all last night but you have not been here all day about the streets whit have you had to eat cat alno nothing thin come said 1 I think a little you are tire tired rand Tand and have been asleep and do not quite consider what vi hat you are arc saying to ns ils yau you have had something to eat today to day come comel think of it no I 1 bothin nothing 0 but such bits as I 1 could pick up about the ma market arket why look at me she bared her neck ank and I 1 covered it 11 up lip again if yoi had a shilling to get som some supper and a lodging should you know where to get it yes I 1 could uld do that for gods odds sake get it then 1 1 I put the money in ilet hei land hand and she feebly rose and went away sha she never thanked me never looked at it me melted away dito hito themis the baig erable ri night l lit in the strangest manner I 1 ever saw I 1 have rave seen many strange things but not one that has left a deeper impression on my memory than the dull impassive waar way in which t that h at worn out heap of misery took that piece of money and was waa lost one by one I 1 poke spoke to all the five in every oae one interest and curiosity were as extinct as in the first they were all dull and languid no one moade roade any sort of profession or complaint no one cared to look at me no one thanked me when I 1 came to the third I 1 suppose she saw that my companion anti I 1 glanced with a new horror upon tipon us at the last two who had ifton ped e d against each other in their sleep and were iving yin like broken ima lma images es she said she believed ved they were young sisters these were the he only words that were originated amona among the feve five |