It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in Marylebone. To prevent the recurrence of any such escape as that just described, it was deemed expedient, in more recent times, to keep a watchman at the top of Newgate. There was only one sound—the fall of the sea upon the main beach, and even that said: "Hush! Hush! Hus-s-sh!" Not a leaf stirred, not a shadow moved. One doesn’t want to lose a grain. "I'm a peace-officer," he added, "about to arrest a notorious criminal. None at all. In the matter of his conscience he was primitive; and for an educated man to become primitive is to become something of a child. ‘And I don’t mind telling you it goes agin’ the grain with me to let you go free and all, missie. Gianfrancesco was not ugly, in fact, perhaps he was rather handsome after all.
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