Police, Costermongers, and Prostitutes

Costermonger: an appleseller, a fruiterer, especially one that sold his fruit in the open street. A barrowman.

"He had no illusions about the London police. Indeed, he was collecting evidence of their malpractices; and those costermongers, not allowed to stand their barrows in the streets; and prostitutes, good Lord, the fault wasn't in them, nor in young men either, but in our detestable social system and so forth; all of which he considered, could be seen considering, grey, dogged, dapper, clean, as he walked across the Park to tell his wife that he loved her."

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925).