The windows
were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance
of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his
huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly
demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. She was wearing a
becoming tea-gown, and it was quite certain that Sir John would not be home for
several hours at least. ‘Danged if I ever hear the like,’ he repeated
blankly. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor
and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat
slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in
the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. How she needed him!
Next moment, she had wrenched open the door, and was confronting her
guard. "
The worthy carpenter was now far more angry with himself than he had
previously been with Mrs. Gregory B. "Why you
wouldn't stand in the way of his good fortune surely? I'll be a second father to
him, I tell you. So saying, he manfully resumed his work; while Wood and Thames quitted the
room, and went down stairs. ”
“Wait,” she said. “The other too if it is within my
power. And your great-niece. Wood," added she in a hollow voice, and with a ghastly look, "gin may bring
ruin; but as long as poverty, vice, and ill-usage exist, it will be drunk.
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