And opposite to him, with a book in his hand,—but it couldn't be a
prayer-book,—sat Jonathan Wild, in a parson's cassock and band. “You come into
these sordid surroundings—you mustn’t mind my calling them sordid—and it
makes them seem as though they didn’t matter. You see,
we guys bump up against so much of the seamy side that we look upon
everybody as guilty until proved innocent, which is hind-side-to. Sharples received them at the threshold, and holding his lantern towards the
prisoners to acquaint himself with their features, nodded to Quilt, between whom
and himself some secret understanding seemed to subsist, and then closed and
barred the door. ’
‘You speak it very well,’ Gerald said encouragingly. “Life—things—I don’t think her prospects now—Hopeful outlook. Everyone will grumble to you confidentially—Miss
Ellicot, she’s our swagger young lady, you know—up there, next to Miss White,
she will tell you that it is so out of the world here, so far away from everyone
one knows. “No. Then she sang. Such was the effect produced upon the passengers by his good looks
and manly deportment, that few—especially of the gentler and more susceptible
sex—failed to turn round and bestow a second glance upon the handsome
stranger.
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