"
"If I ask you to part with him, my good woman, it's to better his condition, I
suppose, ain't it?" rejoined Wood angrily; for, though he had no serious intention
of carrying his proposal into effect, he was rather offended at having it declined. Gin is the poor man's friend,—his sole set-off
against the rich man's luxury. He was vaguely uneasy; he
knew not what about. Here was a little corner of the past—a tragic corner. As a matter of fact, I had never
spoken to him before in my life. Like the Castle, which it
resembled in all respects except that it was destitute even of a barrack-bedstead,
the Red Room was reserved for state-prisoners, and had not been occupied since
the year 1716, when the jail, as has before been mentioned, was crowded by the
Preston rebels. From the white beach
the palms ran in serried rows quarter of a mile inland, then began a jungle of
bamboo, gum-tree, sandalwood, plantain, huge fern, and choking grasses. . Both Spurlock and McClintock stood by their chairs until she was gone. CHAPTER XXVI
Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him.
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