He grew even
harder. ”
The girl sat up and looked at him with a curious twist at the corners of her mouth
—humorous or pathetic, he could not tell which. Ye gods! what a
wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one
regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against
you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse
confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the
Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the
painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. "
Taking the keys, he led the way, followed by Jonathan, who chuckled internally
at the shock that awaited the poor fellow. They would be quite
as entertaining as the histories of Guzman D'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes,
Estevanillo Gonzalez, Meriton Latroon, or any of my favourite rogues,—and far
more instructive. To stumble upon the trail through the agency of a
bottle of whisky! Drank queer; so his bottle had rendered him conspicuous. CHAPTER XXX. This costume,
though somewhat extravagant, displayed his slight, but perfectly-proportioned
figure to the greatest advantage. The months that followed September spiraled
downward. Nevertheless
she withdrew her hand. In a fit of despondency, superinduced
by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered,
after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle
—such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by
the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which
were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily
enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely
abandoned. Hilary could not have
suggested such a thing. "Thank Heaven!" she gasped. "I'll admit that.
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