'Mercy!' shrieked the youth, struggling vainly.

We can now look forward to an online edition of G. W. M. Reynolds' The Mysteries of London, to be updated weekly.  (This, incidentally, should be a salutary reminder that a flourishing market in godly publications can exist happily--or unhappily?--along a market for decidedly ungodly things.  Even in Victorian England.)  Via VICTORIA.