Alcohol—
would you believe it?—steadies his nerves and keens his brain: which is against
the laws of gravitation, you might say. She was in a very uncritical state that afternoon. ’
‘Why the devil should you be interested, I should like to know?’ rejoined
Roding. She learned that they had granted her the
attributes of an earth elemental goddess, and they
considered her as necessary as the wolf, as if she had a
role to play in the natural order. ‘I
have an arthritic complaint, which is why you find me retired from fashionable
life. Where Saint Giles' church stands, once a lazar-house stood;
And, chain'd to its gates, was a vessel of wood;
A broad-bottom'd bowl, from which all the fine fellows,
Who pass'd by that spot, on their way to the gallows,
Might tipple strong beer,
Their spirits to cheer,
And drown in a sea of good liquor all fear!
For nothing the transit to Tyburn beguiles
So well as a draught from the Bowl of Saint Giles!
II.
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