CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
A grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age, is described as sitting among wares in a den of infamous resort, in a quarter that 'reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.' The description suggests suspected involvement in criminal or illicit activities, though not confirmed.
UNKNOWN GREY-HAIRED RASCAL
Far in this den of infamous resort, there was a low-browed, beetling shop, below a penthouse roof, where iron, old rags, bottles, bones, and greasy offal were bought... Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age, who had screened himself from the cold air without by a frouzy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters hung upon a line and smoked his pipe in all