Wood wound it up by a description of the drenching he had undergone
at the Mint pump, the other could hold out no longer, but, leaning back in his
chair, gave free scope to his merriment. What he needed was not a food
but a flavour; and the cocoanut taste of the chestnuts soothed his burning tongue
and throat. "Buck up! While there's life there's hope. It’s
a sort of blacklegging to want to have a life of one’s own. And next morning she attired
herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a
post-office, and went to him. She warmed to him fast, her anger was much
harder to carry than the pleasant everyday neutrality of
affection. She was beautiful once,
Lucia. ‘You’d do the same. "
"Decidedly so," replied Edgeworth Bess; "and I'll take this opportunity, while
Jack's back is turned,—for he's grown so strangely particular,—of easing him of
his snuff-box. Perhaps that is why I
lost my ambition. Having ascertained by the breathing which room Thames
occupied, he speedily contrived to fasten him in. But woe to those who disregard them! Of course, basically it is
all wrong; and sometimes God must laugh at our ideas of rectitude. Them young prigs is all alike. And he had destroyed all this. "
"I shouldn't mind ridding him of her," said Blueskin, gruffly; "and if she comes
in my way, may the devil seize me if I don't make short work with her!"
"You forget," rejoined Jack, sternly, "I've just said I'll have no violence—mind
that.
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