You will have to cut your hair short, and then you will pass without observation." "Where are you taking us to ?" Desmond asked, as they descended the hill.
"I have got a lodging in a house out in the fields.

I said that I was an Irishman who had come to London in search of employment, and that I expected three friends to join me, and that we intended to hire chairs and carry the gentry about, for here they seem too lazy to walk, and everyone is carried; though it is small blame to them, for dirtier streets I never saw.

They are just full of holes, where you go in up to the knee in mud and filth of all kinds.

Faith, there are parts of Paris which we can't say much for, but the worst of them are better than any here, except just the street they call Cheapside, which goes on past Saint Paul's, and along the Strand to Westminster." "What have you brought these sticks for, Mike ?" For he had handed, to each, a heavy bludgeon.
"Sure, your honour, 'tis not safe to be in the streets after nightfall.

It is like that part of Paris where no dacent man could walk, without being assaulted by thieves and cutthroats.