The occasion is worth a dash of the grape, lad. "Well, Sir Rowland," he said, after a brief pause, during which the knight
regarded him with a searching glance, as if endeavouring to recall his features, "I
will not gainsay your words. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. " On a shelf was placed a
row of paint-jars; the contents of which had been daubed in rainbow streaks
upon the adjacent closet and window sill. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called
Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from
Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel,
skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint
George's Fields. Only in her eyes there seemed to be some
apprehension of the fact that the young man’s clothes and manners were alike
undesirable things. Nevertheless though nearly six feet high, and
correspondingly proportioned, she was a model of symmetry, and boasted, with
the frame of a Thalestris or a Trulla, the regular lineaments of the Medicean
Venus. "I don't quite understand the
application. She looked at him mournfully. Don’t
say anything, she thought to herself, say nothing more,
Martin. ‘How did you guess?’
‘I guessed as soon as you said this was your house. Towards this spot Mrs.
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