But, perhaps,
you'll first accompany me to my dwelling for a moment, that we may arrange
our accounts before we start. She had
taken care he should have this momentous talk with her on a garden-seat
commanded by the windows of the house. Besides this, each had a large black patch over his right eye,
and a very queer twist at the left side of his mouth, so that if their object had
been disguise, they could not have adopted better precautions. "Not proud in the least, I declare. "And yet, he has been spared thus long; perhaps with a wise purpose," rejoined
Thames. Annabel, I was lying. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. No instrument I've ever used has
done me such good service. Rattles were sprung; lanterns lighted,
and hoisted at the end of poles; windows thrown open; doors unbarred; and, as if
by magic, the street was instantaneously filled with a crowd of persons of both
sexes, armed with such weapons as came most readily to hand, and dressed in
such garments as could be most easily slipped on. But, Gerald, do you believe there is a secret
passage indeed?’
‘Well, we covered every inch of the house and grounds, and I swear she never
left that room by way of the door. “Um, he took me to the Big Apple. It
was obvious that he had waited for her. Yet he stays.
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