No one was allowed to pass
along Newgate Street, which was barricaded and protected by a strong
constabulary force. Dim possibilities that she would not seem to look at even to herself
gesticulated in the twilight background of her mind. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a
large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly
dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal
lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and
tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and
female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in
drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. ‘Oh, are there? You are not quite alone
in these adventures of yours, I take it. Pitt, the
governor, a tall pompous personage, who, in his turn, ushered in four other
individuals. They were
bickering, she could tell by the way the mother threw her
fat arms into the air and paced restlessly about the tiny
clapboard house. I don’t
know. 4. Pilgrim's Progress,
The Life of Martin Luther and Alice in Wonderland (the only fairy-story she had
been permitted to read) were the sum total of her library.
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