. ‘You would read my mind?’
Gerald was pretty certain he already had, but he did not say so. Jack's heart was too full to allow him to derive any pleasure from this scene; so
he strolled on without raising his eyes till he arrived at Kensal Green. Anna was unimpressed. "
"Who?" almost screamed Mrs. "
"Well, for my part," observed Mrs. ‘What in Hades d’ye mean, thanks to me? Want to blame anyone, blame
that rapscallion who calls himself your father. When I told her that there were no available
nurses this side of Hong-Kong, she offered her services at once, and broke her
journey. One or
two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with
rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened
for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other,
would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. "Any price was better than your head. Like a trollop in heat.
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