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Melusine hesitated. "
After narrowly examining the countenance of the sitter, and motioning him with
his pencil into a particular attitude, Sir James Thornhill commenced operations;
and, while he rapidly transferred his lineaments to the canvass, engaged him in
conversation, in the course of which he artfully contrived to draw him into a
recital of his adventures. I snatched it up, pointed it blindly at him, and fired. "Take him home, Saunders," said Sir Rowland, resigning his faulty steed to the
attendant's care, "I shall not require you further. But oh, how weary I
am! I know. Kneebone, who had drained his glass
to the restoration of the house of Stuart, and the downfall of the house of
Hanover, more frequently than was consistent with prudence, consented; and the
trio set out for Wych Street, where they arrived in the jolliest humour possible. To be sure," he added, lowering his tone, "they wos little 'uns, and
one on 'em was smothered—ough! ough!—how this cough chokes me!"
Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself,
unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole,
upon a bench near him. mm. "
"Where did you get it?" inquired Thames. Either Sydney or Mr. . "
"Probably not. Prudence reminded him that he was a county
magistrate, and parliamentary candidate for a somewhat difficult borough, where
his principal supporters were dissenters of strict principles who took a zealous
interest in his moral character. 168
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