When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. ‘Hilary!’
The captain appeared, alert at the note in his major’s voice as Gerald had
known he would be. ”
“I wasn’t jesting,” said Capes, abruptly. I was in the front row,
and I fancied she smiled at me. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained
sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father,
which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her
mother had said. ‘And that Suzanne, the
sister of my cousin the vicomte, must choose between Monsieur Charvill and her
brother. ”
The detective thrust his notebook into his pocket. But it was otherwise with the carpenter. ‘You! Have you pen and paper?’
‘Pen and paper now, is it?’ grumbled the old man as he shuffled down the hall. His
shirt was unfastened, his vest unbuttoned, his hose ungartered; his feet were
stuck into a pair of pantoufles, his arms into a greasy flannel dressing-gown, his
head into a thrum-cap, the cap into a tie-periwig, and the wig into a gold-edged
hat.
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