Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


After a shave and a bath, with my clothes all off, I got in between clean
white sheets and went to sleep. It was six in the evening when I closed
my eyes. When they opened again, the clocks were striking nine next
morning. I had slept fifteen straight hours. And as I lay there
drowsily, my mind went back to the seven hundred unfortunates I had left
waiting for services. No bath, no shave for them, no clean white sheets
and all clothes off, and fifteen hours' straight sleep. Services over,
it was the weary streets again, the problem of a crust of bread ere
night, and the long sleepless night in the streets, and the pondering of
the problem of how to obtain a crust at dawn.

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