Frozen Corpses on Fashionable Streets

Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety

2015-07-20

“Even the rich experience a sense of dislocation. Alms-giving seems not enough; there are frozen corpses on fashionable streets. When people step down from their carriages, they pull their cloaks about their faces, to keep the stinging cold from their cheeks and the miserable sights from their eyes.”

A Place of Greater Safety, pg. 157


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