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Saint Giles's Round-house was an old detached fabric, standing in an angle of
Kendrick Yard. There's our young friend upstairs. In the chapel she sang with an open-lunged gusto that
silenced Ann Veronica altogether, and in the exercising-yard slouched round
with carelessly dispersed feet. Besides, there are greater rascals than Jack Sheppard at liberty, Sir Rowland. His gangling body was clothed in rusty twill trousers and a long black
seersucker coat, buttoned to the throat, around which ran a collar which would
have marked him the world over as a man of the Word. "And now," she
added, with somewhat more composure, "leave me, dear friends, I entreat, for a
few minutes to collect my scattered thoughts—to prepare myself for what I have
to go through—to pray for my son. Don't suppose," she
added, with a scornful glance at her helpmate, "that I would pay him the
compliment of thinking he could possibly be the father of such a boy as you. "But she is saying something to me! What is it?"
The hotel manager, who spoke Cantonese with facility, interpreted. With this view, he hurried to the spot where he had left the post-chaise, and
found it drawn up at the road-side, the postilion dismounted, and in charge of a
couple of farming-men. He uttered a deep groan, but said
nothing. Even now she was dazed. It was quite dark; but as
some of the assemblage carried links, it was soon ascertained to be headed by
the same party who had mainly incited the former disturbance. "She tells me there was a Kanaka cook; been in the family as long as she can
remember. "You have said," pursued the widow, "that she, who has once erred, is
irreclaimable. A narrow entry, formed by two low walls, communicated with the main
thoroughfare; and in this passage, under the cover of a penthouse, stood Wood,
with his little burthen, to whom we shall now return.
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