“It really is not necessary. Was not Gerald altogether on her side? He
was, even though he played games like an imbecile, a person tout à fait
sympathique as she had discovered at the outset. I know nothing
about this affair, but some one has been burning documents. And I heard ‘Alcide’ sing, and that little dance she did. She was, as Capes had said, a hard young woman. The ladies were, as usual, very gaily dressed; and as usual, also, had
resorted to art to heighten their attractions—
From patches, justly placed, they borrow'd graces,
And with vermilion lacquer'd o'er their faces. ’
Which effectually silenced her. There MULSACK and SWIFTNECK, both prigs from their birth,
OLD MOB and TOM COX took their last draught on earth:
There RANDAL, and SHORTER, and WHITNEY pulled up,
And jolly JACK JOYCE drank his finishing cup!
For a can of ale calms,
A highwayman's qualms,
And makes him sing blithely his dolorous psalms
And nothing the transit to Tyburn beguiles
So well as a draught from the Bowl of Saint Giles!
"Singing's dry work," observed the stranger, pausing to take a pull at the bottle.
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