... exorbitant and prohibitory. Vice had more opportunities than now. There was no early closing, and in the Haymarket and in Drury-lane these places .wern frequented by prostitutes and their victims all night long. A favourite place for men to sup at was Evans' ...

... Wegron shook his bead. Don't be too sure, he said. One of the gamest fights I ever was a little chit in petticoats in the Drury Lane region, trying to close her lord's 'peepers' as she called them. I put two to one on her and I'd have won too if the police ...

... malice of the police and the spirit of improvement cleared it out of Seven Dials. It had steered a roundabout course by Drury-lane, the Mint, Commercialstreet, and Clerkenwell, till it found settlement in the purlieus of Clare Market. There, under the ...

... CHAPTER V. That gentleman resided in the Drury Lane region in order to be at the centre of sport. To the land of pantomimes, alleys, and es-il smells Dick accordingly made his way, a cigar between his teeth, his stet , elastic, his chest thrown out, his ...