. And then she would find work. Practically it was most of the chief interests in life that she proposed to settle in this pedestrian meditation. On this side stood the instruments with which the latter piece of pleasantry had been effected,—namely, a bucket filled with paint and a brush: on that was erected a trophy, consisting of a watchman's rattle, a laced hat, with the crown knocked out, and its place supplied by a lantern, a campaign wig saturated with punch, a torn steen-kirk and ruffles, some halfdozen staves, and a broken sword. “You see, daddy, I don’t think it IS preposterous. 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. “I am afraid,” she said, “that he must have a skeleton key to these rooms. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. " After all those former bitter failures, this cup was sweet, even if there was the flavour of irony. " "Well!" remarked Jonathan, who had paid little attention to the latter part of the conversation: "this is an awkward business certainly: but we must do the best we can in it.
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