I told
you that at the outset. This manoeuvre was so suddenly executed that it took Abraham completely by
surprise. He even hugged
her a few times, something he had never done. Sepulchre's bell is for ever ringing in my ears—oh!"
"If that's the case," observed Wood, "I'm surprised you should like to have such a
frightful picture constantly in view as that over the chimney-piece. Now, let’s get down to
business. "But what, may I ask, arouses the thought?"
The doctor was in high good humour. Hastening along the passage he came to the sixth door. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. . “Oh, but life is difficult!” she
groaned. ‘Then it is that you will have pity? Here we have
come, we poor, for aid. I shall give you my life, every moment and thought of my
life. Unwillingly he drew a little nearer, and became one of the group of
loiterers about the entrance. "I suppose it didn't
drop through the ceiling, did it? Are you quite sure it's flesh and blood?" asked
he, playfully pinching its arm till it cried out with pain. She was quite oblivious to the sensation she had created.
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