Conceiving himself called upon,
as the intimate friend of the deceased, to pay this last tribute of respect to her
memory, he appeared as one of the chief mourners. "Anything that concerns Ruth is of
interest to me. ’
Amusement flickered in Gerald’s breast. While this was effected, intelligence was brought that a formidable mob was
pouring down Field Lane, the end of which was barricaded. Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. Always as black and bitter as gall. He was going to tell me something—
and he shut up. A
man’s children nowadays are not his own. The second, comprising the bulk of the jail, and by many
degrees worse in point of accommodation, having several dismal and noisome
wards under ground, was common both to debtors and malefactors,—an
association little favourable to the morals or comforts of the former, who, if they
were brought there with any notions of honesty, seldom left with untainted
principles. ’
Melusine edged a little away from the portrait. .
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