He called to the other attendant, who held the torch. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers. “You see,” he said, “from my point of view you’re grown up—
you’re as old as all the goddesses and the contemporary of any man alive. I wanted something alive. It would be very hard perhaps
to make you understand just how I feel about it. She liked his face; it had on it the suggestion of gentleness, of
fineness. John knew everybody, it seemed. I finally got my own
set of house keys when I turned eleven. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she
took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing
them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an
acceptable friend to accompany her. She didn’t like the shops, she didn’t
like the other women’s faces; she thought the smirking men in frock-coats who
dominated these establishments the most intolerable persons she had ever had to
face. ‘You mean—’
‘Hilary!’ Lucy turned excited eyes back to Alderley. He entered the room
with his usual deliberation, and looked covertly about him.
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