This young man, whose features, though rather
plain and coarse, bore the strongest impress of genius, and who had a dark gray,
penetrating eye, so quick in its glances that it seemed to survey twenty objects at
once, and yet only to fasten upon one, bore the honoured name of William
Hogarth. What is it?"
"Is there anything I can do?" The idiocy of the question filled him with the
craving of laughter. ”
Chapter V
“ALCIDE”
Courtlaw took up his hat and coat at once, but Anna motioned him to remain. This whole affair is truly my fault. But—but how?’
‘Can you write?’ Gerald asked, digging into one of his capacious pockets and
bringing out a leather ring purse. You
should remember, before you try your strength against mine, that when I rescued
you from the watch, and you induced me to come and live with you, I beat off
four men, any of whom was a match for you—ha! ha!"
"My dear Poll!" said Kneebone, picking himself up, "I entreat you to moderate
yourself. Men were going
hither and thither with barrows, and ladders and ropes, removing the rubbish,
and trying to support the tottering habitations. Suddenly he understood what had happened. ‘There is little I can do at present. There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. “No, she just worries that I’ll go Satanic and start
chomping the heads off of bats and mice or something. Will you read to me? I am tired; and the sound of
your voice makes me drowsy. In your heart you know quite well that all that you
have said is useless.
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