All sorts of battered tramps, junks and riff-raff of the seas
trailed in and out. ”
“You must also put in the agreement,” Anna said, “that I do not represent myself
to be ‘Alcide,’ and that I am not advertised to the public by that name. He knew she would be there, practicing
alone in 118. At last some anodyne formed itself from these exercises, and, with eyelashes
wet with such feeble tears as only three-o’clock-in-the-morning pathos can distil,
she fell asleep. Her features
were meagre, and ghastly white, and had the fixed and horrible stamp of
insanity. "Ah! what is that?" he cried, pointing
to a dark object floating near them amid the boiling waves, and which presented
a frightful resemblance to a human face. It would be the
wrappered world almost at its best. "No!" she cried. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose.
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