From the opposite corner under
the trees a man with his hat slouched over his eyes stood and glowered at them. Splendidly. Somewhere she
had read that it was the proper thing to do and that men liked to be alone with
their tobacco. "It is", seplied Winifred; "have you brought any tidings of Thames Darrell!"
"Troth have I!" replied Terence: "but, bless your angilic face, how did you
contrive to guess that?"
"Is he well?—is he safe?—is he coming back," cried the little girl, disregarding
the question. There's a friend of Sir James—a young man, an engraver of
masquerade tickets and caricatures,—his name I believe is Hogarth. “I will make it possible,” he cried. I didn’t know he had Italian relatives. “I—I shall be all right
directly. 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. Ruth broke the exquisite pose by summoning Ah Cum, who was lured into a
lecture upon the water-clock. After all, why need one look down. 55
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THE MANOR, 1349
They moved to the country manor in the autumn of
1349, when plague was still raging through the city.
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