[The Town Traveller by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Town Traveller CHAPTER XIV 3/24
The air must be full of germs.
I hardly know whet her we ought to eat even this loaf. What do you think ?" Every one's dinner was spoilt.
Theodore declared that really, when one considered the complicated and expensive machinery of local government, if sewer traps and _affluvias_ were allowed to exist in the immediate neighbourhood of bakers' shops, why it really made one inclined to think and ask whether there might not be something in the arguments of the Socialists. Christopher one day brought home some knickknack which he had bought from a City pedlar, one of those men who stand at the edge of the pavement between a vigilant police and a menacing vehicular traffic.
It amused his sister-in-law, who showed it to her husband.
Theodore having learnt whence it came was not a little concerned. "Now, if that isn't like Christopher! When will that boy learn ordinary prudence? The idea of buying things from a man whose clothes more likely than not reek with infection! Dear me! Has he never reflected where those fellows live? Destroy the thing at once and wash your hands very carefully, I beg.
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