Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world,
with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much
as an animal goes out to seek food. It was just
then that she came face to face with Nigel Ennison. . I could always
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tell right away whether my new foster home was going to
be good or bad. ‘You give me an excellent excuse to have in the Madeira,’ said his hostess,
reaching for a silver hand bell and setting it pealing. He had been for months without music of the character he loved—and he
dared not play any of it!
McClintock, after the music began, left the piano and sat in a corner just beyond
the circle of light cast by the lamp. It has been already intimated that Jack had an
excessive passion for finery; and it might have been added, that the chief part of
his ill-gotten gains was devoted to the embellishment of his person. And empty. Your kid has already brought me good luck, and may bring me still more
if his edication's attended to. But he would die if he continued in this course. On this side stood the instruments with which the
latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint
and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a
laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a
campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. The parlour was cluttered but cosy. .
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