Her interest grew as she read, a certain distaste disappeared. He had invited himself to dine with her
merely to watch her table manners. Forgive me, but you have been looking, have you not, for
some employment?”
“Quite true!” she answered. “It’s all dirt that washes off, dear, but it’s dirt. Come and have lunch with
me. “How did you become a vampire, then?” He asked. Immediately beneath the pulpit stood a large circular pew where malefactors
under sentence of death sat to hear the condemned sermon delivered to them,
and where they formed a public spectacle to the crowds, which curiosity
generally attracted on those occasions. "What's that?"
"The old human cry of something for nothing; but with you it is in reverse. On this side stood the instruments with which the
latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint
and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a
laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a
campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. There is a musical
programme, and we have the windows open and blinds up, and a pink lamp
shade over the piano lamp—a sort of advertisement of the place, you know. CHAPTER VIII.
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