The above
description of
—the great Figg, by the prize-fighting swains
Sole monarch acknowledged of Mary'bone plains—
may sound somewhat tame by the side of the glowing account given of him by
his gallant biographer, who asserts that "there was a majesty shone in his
countenance, and blazed in his actions, beyond all I ever saw;" but it may,
possibly, convey a more accurate notion of his personal appearance. 155
The ringing doorbell jarred her from her stupor. "
Half an hour after this occurrence, when it had been sufficiently laughed at and
discussed; when the wager had been settled, and the chairman dismissed with the
remaining three guineas, which Shotbolt was compelled to pay; Ireton arose, and
signified his intention of stepping across the street to inform Mr. "Oh! if I had known this," he exclaimed, "what guilt, what remorse might have
been spared me!"
"Repentance comes too late when the deed's done," returned Wild, bitterly. “Of course, I remember now. . "There's an old proverb," continued Wood, rising and walking towards the fire,
"which says,—'Put another man's child in your bosom, and he'll creep out at
your elbow. She remembered the
doctor's warning that the real battle would begin when the patient recovered
consciousness. "
CHAPTER XVIII. He knew she had
been weeping. It was not simply that all the rooms were rearranged and everybody dressed in
unusual fashions, and all the routines of life abolished and put away: people’s
tempers and emotions also seemed strangely disturbed and shifted about.
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