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The inhabitants , especially in that portion of Marylebone where Fan lived , form a strange mixture . Artists , men of letters , sober tradesmen , artisans , day labourers , students , shop-assistants , and foreigners -- dynamiters , adventurers , and waiters waiting for places -- may all be found living in one short street . Bohemianism , vice , respectability , wealth and poverty , are jumbled together as in no other district in London . The modest wife , coming out of her door at ten in the morning to do her marketing , meets , face to face , her next neighbour standing at _ her _ door , a jug in her hand , waiting for some late milkman to pass -- a slovenly dame in a dressing-gown with half the buttons off , primrose-coloured hair loose on her back , and a porcelain complexion hastily dabbed on a yellow dissipated face . The Maryleboners -LRB- or bonites -RRB- being a Happy Family , in the menagerie sense , do not vex their souls about this condition of things ; the well-fed and the hungry , the pure and the impure , are near together , but in soul they are just as far apart as elsewhere . Nevertheless , to a young girl like Fan , living alone , and beautiful to the eye , the large amount of immorality around her was a serious trouble , and she never ventured out in the evening , even to go a short distance , without trepidation and a fast-beating heart , so strong was that old loathing and horror the leering looks and insolent advances of dissolute men inspired in her . And in no part of London are such men more numerous .