“Whenever they try to take hold of life a man intervenes. My arm's nearly well
again. To his relief, Mrs Sindlesham stepped into the breach, grasping
her cane and rising painfully from her chair. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. . "You hear," pursued Jonathan; "my friend desires to know if you are willing to
pay your footing as a member of the ancient and respectable fraternity of
debtors?"
"I owe no man a farthing, and my name shall never appear in any such rascally
list," replied Wood angrily. "I give you one minute for reflection. "Well, what sort of journey have you had, Quilt?" asked the man as he hastened
to assist Sir Rowland to dismount.
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