In this attempt he was, however, foiled by the
agility of the carpenter, who managed to retreat to the door, against which he
placed his back, kicking the boards vigorously with his heel. Within forty-eight hours the girl would be
on her way east and the boy see-sawing the South China Sea, for ever moving at
absolute angles. “Idiots!” she said, when she heard this pandemonium, and with particular
reference to this young lady with the throaty contralto next door. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take
offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation. That’s what I mean. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed
along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy
walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those
who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable
name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN
WILD. Yes—as he would have liked. Oh! you young people!”
The young man with the orange tie, in spite of Sisyphus-like efforts on the
part of Goopes to get the topic on to a higher plane, displayed great persistence
in speculating upon the possible distribution of the affections of highly
developed modern types.
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