He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse. "To be sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his poor father suffered. ‘What is the matter?’ ‘Is there nothing you do not know?’ she asked faintly. We've got to make him take up the harp of life and go twanging it again. I'll turn cracksman, like my father—rob old Wood—he has chests full of money, and I know where they're kept—I'll rob him, and give the swag to you, Poll—I'll—" Jack would have said more; but, losing his balance, he fell to the ground, and, when taken up, he was perfectly insensible. “A man can smoke, a man can swear; A man scores always, everywhere. ” She turned abruptly at right angles to the path they followed. All alone; and nobody cared whether he lived or died. With a well-simulated unconcern and a heightened color she finished her breakfast. Smith decidedly the plainest of the two. His face was aquiline but sweet, the years had not yet taken the blush from his cheeks and his lips were similarly rubefacient. " "How so?" asked the other, distrustfully. “It’s not for us to supplicate any more. .
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