She opened one and found herself in a large untidy room set with chairs that were a little disarranged as if by an overnight meeting. There was a coffee equipage on the table, and some sandwiches, and the fire had been recently made up. 265 The madness crept around her like smoke under a door. She would have to move on to a more lawless country soon, Mexico, Columbia, then cross the sea where she could eventually return to the chaos of Eastern Europe and the Russias. Read that letter, Thames—my lord marquis, I mean. Suppose her father turned her out of doors! She did not care, she meant to go. . Then he sat down again in a chair and said that people who wrote novels ought to be strung up. ‘Pig! Pig, a thousand times!’ Running footsteps could be heard now, and she knew that the commotion was bringing the nuns, just as she had hoped. It consisted of a full-dress coat of brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. Everybody talking of you. 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.
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