“Goodnight. . The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect. It was clear it must be to-morrow. “I believe that you are quite safe. The half-nude brown bodies
of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South
Seas. Sated, he rolled off her body and retired to his
quarters. The next moment, a heavy plunge told that
the fugitive had been consigned to the waves. “When are you going away?” He asked. “But a boy—a boy goes out into the world and presently stands on his own
feet. I was always used
to it, and I think it gives quite a tone to an establishment. At length, however, by dealing blows right and left with their swords, and even
inflicting severe cuts on the foremost of the rabble, the soldiers managed to gain
a clear course, and to drive back the assailants; who, as they retreated behind the
barricades, shouted in tones of defiance, "To Tyburn! to Tyburn!"
The object of all this tumult, meanwhile, never altered his position, but sat back
in the cart, as if resolved not to make even a struggle to regain his liberty. "
"The very face," exclaimed Gay, advancing to look at it;—"with all the escapes
written in it.
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