Then a
bit of colour flowed into his sunken white cheeks. There's a letter for the head turnkey, Mr. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled
one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which
Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have
sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of
vivacity and enjoyment. He knocked on the
doorframe. She mounted the stairs of the theatrical agent’s
office with very much less than her usual buoyancy, nor did she find much
encouragement in the general appearance of the room into which she was shown. ”
Michelle continued on as if uninterrupted. "
"It wasn't the fumes of whisky that toppled him out of his chair. “How have you been lately, Lucy? You’ve been such a
stranger. "The gentleman under the table," she answered. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. One day it was gone. You'll tell me next, I dare say, that I recommended you to go and
visit his mother so frequently under the plea of charity; to give her wine, and
provisions, and money; to remove her from the only fit quarters for such people
—the Mint; and to place her in a cottage at Willesden, of which you must needs
pay the rent? Marry, come up! charity should begin at home. An uncomfortable silence
followed. ”
She spoke like a mistress addressing school-children. That’s how things are; that’s the order of the world.
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