You are welcome to proclaim yourself ‘Alcide’ if
you will. Spurling, formerly, it may be remembered, the hostess of the Dark House at
Queenhithe,—whence wine, ale, and brandy of inferior quality were dispensed,
in false measures, and at high prices, throughout the prison, which in noise and
debauchery rivalled, if it did not surpass, the lowest tavern. “Forgive my coming in,” she said to Ennison. ”
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
ANN VERONICA PUTS THINGS IN ORDER
Part 1
Ann Veronica made a strenuous attempt to carry out her good resolutions. ’
Gerald tutted. Why are you so anxious?"
"Oh, if you can't see your way…. "
So saying, he advanced towards the window, threw open the sash, and called out
in the voice of Thames Darrell, "Who's there?"
He was answered by a shot from a pistol. Three little letters
can’t make a bit of difference. On the right of the postern against the wall was affixed
a small grating, sustaining the debtor's box; and any pleasure which the passerby might derive from contemplating the splendid structure above described was
damped at beholding the pale faces and squalid figures of the captives across the
bars of its strongly-grated windows. ”
“Rum,” said Ann Veronica. His legs were dreadfully swelled; his
hands bruised; and his fetters occasioned him intolerable pain. “It was the night you left Paris. "
"You may spare me your compassion, friend," observed Thames; "I am falsely
detained.
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