One of them was
a stout square-built man, with a singularly swarthy complexion, and harsh
forbidding features. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. “The smallest will do for me
quite well. She wanted
his attention, but so did everyone else. Seeing from the threatening looks of his captors, that they were
about to wreak their vengeance upon him, the miserable wretch besought mercy
in abject terms, and charged his master with the most atrocious crimes. Not a word was uttered by the assemblage; but a hush of expectation
reigned throughout.
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