Phew! but it was hot and thick, we don't want to breathe it again.

It is astonishing that people get used to it, and like it too! But it leaves its taint upon them, for it permeates their clothing; they carry it about with them, and any one who gets a whiff of it gets some idea of the breath of a common lodging-house.

And its moral breath has its effect, too! Woe to all that is fresh and fair, young and hopeful, that comes within its withering influence.

Farewell! a long farewell to honour, truth and self-respect, for the hot breath of a common lodging-house will blast those and every other good quality in young people of either sex that inhale it.

Its breath comes upon them, and lo! they become foul without and vile within, carrying their moral and physical contagion with them wherever they go.
A moral sepulchre, or rather crematorium, is the common lodging-house, for when its work is done, nothing is left but ashes.