Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 224
is un-like any other public. A few workmen out of work, a few loose women, hauntersof taverns and hells, thieves at the commencement or the close of their career, menescaped from the galleys, the lazy, the good-for-nothing, and the good-for-nothing-else, squeeze their way to the foot of the… … forth rude exclamations, stifled cries, coarse jokes, and a brutal hubbub of offendeddecency, angry oaths, and strange slang. The swindler or the assassin comes thereto learn how a witness may be thrown out, how a question may be evaded, how analibi may be invented, how a fact may be distorted, and…
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