Sheppard, clasping him with a hand that burnt with fever, "I
have been ill—dreadfully ill—I believe delirious—I thought I should have died
last night—I won't tell you what agony you have caused me—I won't reproach
you. They found Ruth reading to Spurlock,
whose shoulders and head were propped by pillows. Tell me, Sir," she added, with forced calmness, and grasping Wood's arm;
"what has Jack done? Tell me in a word, that I may know the worst. ”
“It gives in a nutshell the miracle of art and the imagination. "
"Mother be——!" returned Jack. 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. Next to the receiver was a gang of housebreakers, laughing over their exploits,
and planning fresh depredations; and next to the housebreakers came two
gallant-looking gentlemen in long periwigs and riding-dresses, and equipped in
all other respects for the road, with a roast fowl and a bottle of wine before them. The black clad students
streamed slowly to their positions carrying their
instruments like offerings to the pilgrimage. ‘You see now how dangerous it is to play this lone hand. They set about everyone—everyone. Why? He could preach the Word and
deny Love!—tame the savage heart, succour broken white men!—pray with his
face strained with religious fervour! The idea made her dizzy because it was so
inexplicable. How long he sat there, reeling off this
drivel, he never knew. ”
They passed a man who stared at them curiously.
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