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Captain Roding looked frowningly from one to the other. The air was sweet with the perfume of
flowers, and the melody of murmuring insects, the blue sky was cloudless, the
heat of the sun was tempered by the heather-scented west wind. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew
back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in
contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:—
With pipe and punch upon the board,
And smiling nymphs around us;
No tavern could more mirth afford
Than old Saint Giles's round-house!
The round-house! the round-house!
The jolly—jolly round-house!
"The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his
efforts. He had scarcely entered the arch, when the
indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding,
that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking. ”
“Every one must be experimental,” said Mr. By-the-bye, have you seen this new woman at the ‘Empire’? What is it they call
her—‘Alcide?’”
“Yes, I have seen her,” Ennison answered. “He just wants to get laid, you know.
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