While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. Ann
Veronica stared at his foolish, propitiatory smile, his hungry gaze, through one
moment of amazement, then stepped aside and went on her way with a
quickened step. "
Sheppard cordially returned the pressure; and, cautioning Thames, "not to let the
ruffles drop, or they might tell a tale," began to warble the following fragment of
a robber melody:—
"Oh! give me a chisel, a knife, or a file,
And the dubsmen shall find that I'll do it in style!
Tol-de-rol!"
"Vot the devil are you about, noisy?" inquired Abraham. ‘You imbecile. “I hope,” Annabel answered lazily, “that you have succeeded. According to what I’ve heard, you oughtn’t to
be here. Yield up the
babe, and I pledge my word you shall remain unmolested. She could see that she was
now the exclusive object of the boy’s attention. “Before I met you I was deluded into receiving upon friendly terms a man
named Hill, who passed himself off as Meysey Hill the railway man, but who
was in reality an Englishman in poor circumstances.
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