Mr. Lorry moved in his chair, and cast a troubled look towards the hospital procession of negro cupids. As if they had any help for anybody in their absurd baskets!
Dickens is describing this scene as out of place. It is grotesque. Cupid would assume a sort of natural or innocent love. Describing "negroes" as cupids, he describes them as headless, crippling, etc. Their pureness is essentially damaged by the sufferings underwent by the hands of slavery. The baskets he is referring to are filled with "Dead Sea fruit", which is the inability to really change anything. They are offering poisoned fruit to divinites, but to no avail. I like this small detail.
