Forster, the rebel general's escape, but acquitted, reaped a golden harvest
during the occupation of his premises by the Preston rebels, when a larger sum
was obtained for a single chamber than (in the words of a sufferer on the
occasion) "would have paid the rent of the best house in Saint James's Square or
Piccadilly for several years. I didn't mean it. Side by side with the cheese
(its never-failing accompaniment, in all seasons, at the carpenter's board) came a
tankard of swig, and a toast. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Quilt,
who was an ardent lover of mischief, could not help laughing most heartily at the
rueful appearance of these personages. He reeled, and crashed to the floor. “You are one of those
who must know all about it.
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