In the old days the gutters were open in the streets, but
in modern towns they are put underground; so society is
always forcing vices and abuses underground, covering them
up by a variety of regulations that they no longer shock
the public sense. Still, on occasion, the covered drain may
prove its deadly virus, and the covered sin of the community
is still there, working and threatening mischief.--W. L.
WATKINSON, “The Transfigured Sackcloth.”
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=Sin Exposed=--See EXPOSURE.