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lean young man in spectacles pursued her for some time, crying “Courage!
Courage!” Somebody threw a dab of mud at her, and some of it got down her
neck. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed
along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy
walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those
who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable
name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN
WILD. ”
“Is she the one who made you into a vampire?”
“Yes. She was practically an outcast, she had not even the ghost of a
plan as to her future, and she had something less than five pounds in her pocket. After repeatedly trying to remove the plate, which was so
firmly screwed down that it resisted all his efforts, and vainly attempting to pick
it with the spike and nail; he, at length, after half an hour's ineffectual labour,
wrenched off the box by means of the iron bar, and the door, as he laughingly
expressed it, "became his humble servant. It would send business elsewhere; and the hotel business in Canton was never so
prosperous that one could afford to lose a single guest. Afterward goes on to Oxford. “Project Gutenberg” is a registered trademark.
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