Divers plans and figures were chalked
upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for
the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The
History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an
abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all
manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's
Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend
gentleman and the principal members of his flock. Ho-hum!
CHAPTER IX
The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. The soi-disant
Valade held the centre of the room now, only an uncovered but closed card-table,
its surface dusty, between him and the suite at the fireplace. I want to be
myself. In this cell was a huntsman, who had fractured his skull
while hunting, and was perpetually hallooing after the hounds;—in that, the most
melancholy of all, the grinning gibbering lunatic, the realization of "moody
madness, laughing wild. Wanton!… This, then,
was what her father had meant. While he thus vented his rage, the door again opened, and Quilt Arnold rushed
into the room, bleeding, and half-dressed. A sound sleeper, she was not roused by
the creaky openings and closings of drawers as Lucy
packed a single duffle bag with underwear and soap that
was pilfered from a multipack of Zest in the Beck’s
downstairs bathroom. "To paint your portrait," answered the jailer. ”
“Nothing that one wants. ‘And what the devil do you mean by demanding that I wait on you here? D’you
think I haven’t enough to do handling that caper-witted female’s affairs, without
dancing attendance on you?’
‘Don’t be cross,’ begged Lucilla, much to Melusine’s disgust. Horribly skinny he was, and short too. A nine days’
wonder is soon forgotten.
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