It’s true. She began to act. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which
overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who
traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible
promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes
the aspect of virtue. “With your permission,” he said to Anna, “I shall arrange a bed for him where he
is. Most of them didn’t, anyhow. Whenever they stepped from the chairs, he stepped
down. ’
He endured the inevitable scold with patience, saluted Mrs Chalkney’s faded
cheek, and went off to endure the necessary delay with what patience he could
muster. Had he been sick in the mind when he had done this damnable thing? It did not
seem possible, for he could recall clearly all he had said and done; there were no
blank spaces to give him one straw of excuse. Originally built, as its name imports, in a cylindrical form, like a
modern Martello tower, it had undergone, from time to time, so many alterations,
that its symmetry was, in a great measure, destroyed.
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