Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. ‘I find this was excessively
clever of Gérard. ’ He quirked an eyebrow. ’
‘Aha, you have found something out. “I am going,” she said grimly, with three hairpins in her mouth. The roof was partially
untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported
by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the
windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases,
the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left
free to the airs of heaven. You will not find me unreasonable with you. ’
Gerald was relieved to hear the loud guffaw issuing from the old man’s lips. "
"One word before we begin, Blueskin," said Jack, authoritatively; "in case the
family should be alarmed—mind, no violence. He taught
her about crowds, which men were the evilest, how to
locate and dispose society’s garbage. . "A great deal!" replied Thames.
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