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.
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."
When Catherine died, William left the boys and went away. In the squalor of the lawless city, the two boys were helpless; Silver City was no place for a couple of orphans.