Bright lights and wine, fiddles and dancing, brocade and broadcloth in the showy big houses and, just around the corners, slow starvation and cold.

• 豪门大宅里有的是华灯、美酒、小提琴、舞蹈、锦锻、呢绒，而就在它的四周，人们却在饥寒交迫中慢慢地死亡。