She hated it, she hated the mission-house; she hated the sleek lagoon, the palms, the burning sky. "I don't know what I think," Wood answered sulkily; and he bent his eyes upon the water, as if he wished to avert his attention forcibly from the scene. In consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the metropolis. Poor thing! how beautiful she looks! but how like death!" Deathlike, indeed, was the repose of the sleeper,—deathlike and deep. ” He walked from his door frame to stand nearer to her. She wanted to return his gaze but focused intently on a spot next to and above the brick fireplace, as her music teachers had always taught her to do instead of looking directly at the audience. ‘Didn’t mean to say that. She was beauty, the key of magic, the teacher of spells, the predictor of wars, and the gate of the future. "Heaven be praised, I am not the son of a nobleman. "The Beachcombers. “And as for praying for faith—this sort of monologue is about as near as any one of my sort ever gets to prayer. She spoke slowly. ‘What happened, ma’am?’ enquired Gerald gently. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt.
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