‘Monstrously unfair of you,
Hilary. A few
yards further off something grey, inert, was lying, a huddled-up heap of
humanity twisted into a strange unnatural shape. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a
large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly
dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal
lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and
tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and
female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in
drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. This is my first venture over
here. Ought she to walk into some of these
places and tell them what she could do? She hesitated at the window of a
shipping-office in Cockspur Street and at the Army and Navy Stores, but decided
that perhaps there would be some special and customary hour, and that it would
be better for her to find this out before she made her attempt. She started at the falling
of a leaf, at the lumbering of a cow through the hedge. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. "
"You are offering your hand to me?"
"Without reservations. The stranger started at the
touch, and spoke. "You'd have hit it off better if you'd called
her The Sow. Oaths exploded like shells from a battery in full fire, accompanied by threats
of direst vengeance against the individuals who had maltreated them.
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