Outside stood a
stocky, combat boot-clad girl of seventeen with a teased
mass of spiky bottle-black hair. They crossed the Park to the
westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal
Botanical Gardens and then southwardly toward Waterloo. Her aunt had a once exasperating habit
of interrupting her work with demands for small household services, but now
Ann Veronica rendered them with a queer readiness of anticipatory propitiation. Headed by Jonathan, all the turnkeys then repaired to the upper part of the jail,
and, approaching the Red Room by a circuitous route, several doors were
unlocked, and they came upon the scene of Jack's exploits. "Call as you please, beloved girl," he cried, "I will not stir till I am answered. Her name is Lucia, she
works in the Alberti Yarn Shop, across from Florestano
the Butcher!”
I happily rewarded her with a shiny new Florin and
sent her off. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London.
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