"We must keep still. "
Starting at a rapid pace in the direction of the Old Bailey, and crossing Fleet
Bridge, "for oyster tubs renowned," the trio skirted the right bank of the muddy
stream until they reached Fleet Lane, up which they hurried. ’
A giggle answered him. “That is my dream of you,” said Manning, warming. She roves the blue fields of the North, with
the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost—
mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships
and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her
and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange
words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume
of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet
trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of
danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires
and her mouth full of pearls!
"With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. "
As he said this, he moved forward a few paces, when, finding his feet glued to
the ground by some adhesive substance, he stooped to feel what it was, but
instantly withdrew his hand, with an exclamation of horror. Ennison.
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