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rest. On the groundfloor the shutters were closed, or, to
speak more correctly, altogether nailed up, and presented a very singular
appearance, being patched all over with the soles of old shoes, rusty hobnails,
and bits of iron hoops, the ingenious device of the former occupant of the
apartment, Paul Groves, the cobbler, to whom we have before alluded. Striking out his foot, he knocked half a dozen
teeth down the janizary's throat; and, seconding the kick with a blow on the head
from the butt-end of the pistol, stretched him, senseless and bleeding on the
ground. " Broken pipes
littered the floor, if that can be said to be littered, which, in the first instance, was
a mass of squalor and filth. You’re the only person I’ve
really given good, straight, unselfish thought to. ‘Might have forgiven him,’ he muttered under his breath, ‘if he hadn’t taken
the babe. Her gaze flickered down to his pistol. Hold the chopper away from you,
like this. And, without another word, he seized the table with
both hands, and upset it; scattering plates, dishes, bottles, jugs, and glasses far
and wide. “Home, of course,” she answered. ”
“I mean—”
“I behaved like an idiot, that’s all. “You come into
these sordid surroundings—you mustn’t mind my calling them sordid—and it
makes them seem as though they didn’t matter. Pshaw!" added he, making an effort to subdue his emotion, "I
can't leave you in this way.
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