They sat in the windowed booth at the restaurant
across from each other. The Bach Cantata was played fairly well, Sebastian
thought, for a lot of children. One, by
perseverance and industry shall obtain fortune, credit, and the highest honours;
while the other by an opposite course, and dissolute habits, shall eventually
arrive at Tyburn. ”
“Forty what?” Anna asked bewildered. "
"Not utterly," rejoined the other. Very few survived her trials. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. ”
“I thought you would find that out. “I would rather put up with your own
efforts, however clumsy. She had carried a chair into the room veranda and had watched and listened until
the night silences had lengthened and only occasionally she heard a voice or the
rattle of rickshaw wheels in the courtyard. It was
easy for him to see that she desired to be agreeable to him.
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