18.I admit a general appearance of squalor; it needs much philosophy to extract the wonderful and the beautiful from the Cromwell Road or the Nonconformist conscience.
19.It was during this time, when she was surrounded by squalor and misery, and the screams of the dying, that Nightingale famously called her new hospital " the Kingdom of Hell."
20.The unidentified place is the Colombian Caribbean as nobody else can conjure it, with its blue herons, palm-fringed lagoons, squalor and sensuality, and the sea, sometimes sleepy, sometimes terrifying.