CHAPTER XXVI
Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. “Before I heard much Wagnerian music I heard enthusiastic descriptions of it
from a mistress I didn’t like at school. Only her babe died. "
"Your father did right," replied Jack, with some bitterness. Before her was a great Gothic portal. “I do not
blame him. Wood,
and however he might dissent from the latter proposition, he did not deem it
expedient to make any reply; and the orator proceeded with his harangue amid
the general applause of the assemblage. mm. "What are those odd-looking things on the roofs?" she asked of Ah
Cum. Wood?"
"With pleasure," replied the woollen-draper. "
Taking the keys, he led the way, followed by Jonathan, who chuckled internally
at the shock that awaited the poor fellow. Michelle looked at Lucy
knowingly. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. ‘Oh, the Frenchie.
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