I had dreamt of the olive
grove beyond the courtyard I had once been fascinated
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with as a boy. The assemblage was
for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its
aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was
exhibited. “MY DEAR VERONICA,—Your aunt tells me you have involved yourself in
some arrangement with the Widgett girls about a Fancy Dress Ball in London. They had escaped from the New
Prison, it is true; but the wall of Clerkenwell Bridewell, by which that jail was
formerly surrounded, and which was more than twenty feet high, and protected
by formidable and bristling chevaux de frise, remained to be scaled. Of course, if at any time—see
reason—alter your opinion. Probably the latter,
for the thronging ballroom was insufferably hot. "
"Of what am I accused?" asked Thames, who though a good deal alarmed at
first, had now regained his courage.
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