"You want him?" "Please!" said Ruth. " "I will be there," answered Trenchard, gloomily. Rotten, and covered with a thick coat of dirt, the boards of the floor presented a very insecure footing; the bare walls were scored all over with grotesque designs, the chief of which represented the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar. The ripple of the water against the boat, as its keel cleaves through the stream—the darkling current hurrying by—the indistinctly-seen craft, of all forms and all sizes, hovering around, and making their way in ghostlike silence, or warning each other of their approach by cries, that, heard from afar, have something doleful in their note—the solemn shadows cast by the bridges—the deeper gloom of the echoing arches—the lights glimmering from the banks—the red reflection thrown upon the waves by a fire kindled on some stationary barge—the tall and fantastic shapes of the houses, as discerned through the obscurity;—these, and other sights and sounds of the same character, give a sombre colour to the thoughts of one who may choose to indulge in meditation at such a time and in such a place. The second, comprising the bulk of the jail, and by many degrees worse in point of accommodation, having several dismal and noisome wards under ground, was common both to debtors and malefactors,—an association little favourable to the morals or comforts of the former, who, if they were brought there with any notions of honesty, seldom left with untainted principles. " "It was Blueskin," observed Jack. It appears that he was an unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined attempt at suicide. Ah Cum, sensing the difficulty, approached, recovered the damp handkerchief and returned it. "Confusion!" ejaculated Jonathan: "can he have escaped? No. Lucy stared at the girl for a long ten seconds, and then looked away. By and by he gathered enough courage to lean toward her. She propped a pillow against his padded headboard and sat herself into a stiff upright position, legs expertly crossed. ToC The noise of this disturbance did not fail to reach the interior of the prison.
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