Mike offered twice to beat John up, but Lucy talked
him out of it much to his disappointment. He went in and leaned, panting,
against one wall. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. “Why not?” Lady Lescelles answered. ”
“And my heart has ached for him!”
“Oh, no doubt it cut him at the time. This young man, whose features, though rather
plain and coarse, bore the strongest impress of genius, and who had a dark gray,
penetrating eye, so quick in its glances that it seemed to survey twenty objects at
once, and yet only to fasten upon one, bore the honoured name of William
Hogarth. Straitened circumstances would not have mattered; a mother would have
managed somehow. “I wonder,” he said, “if women do know things by instinct? I have my doubts
about feminine instinct.
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