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And the middle-classes look up in worship and the lower-classes in supplication.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

For weeks all their efforts to trace the fugitive proved of no avail, until one day a girl of the lower-classes called on Lady Kingsborough, to whom she told the following strange tale.

From Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Hall, Thornton