The public-houses, with gas-lights burning inside, were already open. By degrees, other shops began to be unclosed, and a few scattered people were
met with. Then, came straggling groups of labourers going to their work, then, men and women with fish-baskets on their heads; donkey-carts laden with
vegetables, chaise-carts filled with livestock or whole carcasses of meat; milk-women with pails; an unbroken concourse of people trudging out with
various supplies to the eastern suburbs of the town. As they approached the City, the noise and traffic gradually increased; when they threaded the
streets between Shoreditch and Smithfield, it had swelled into a roar of sound and bustle.
What does the setting look like?
O There is nothing around
O There are people everywhere
O There are only animals around
O Only two people are around