She was the actress his whim had chosen to play a passive
part. But there was a face pressed to the glass. Anna sighed as she reflected that her sister had
simply revelled in her indiscretions. “Just come to that seat now you are here, Miss Stanley, and look down the
other path; there’s a vista of just the common sort. Very doubtful. He hated
horizons. Jack was almost afraid of speaking; but at length he summoned courage to call
out "Mother!"
"Who's there?" asked a faint voice from the bed. Here
we are. It appeared he had already
ordered dinner and wine, and the whiskered waiter waved in his subordinate
with the soup forthwith. Here he halted;
and, looking upwards, read, at the foot of an immense sign-board, displaying a
gaudily-painted angel with expanded pinions and an olive-branch, not the name
he expected to find, but that of WILLIAM KNEEBONE, WOOLLENDRAPER. Kneebone began to dispense the
fragrant fluid; begging Mrs. Above was a spacious hall,
connected with it by a flight of stone steps, at the further end of which stood an
immense grated door, called in the slang of the place "The Jigger," through the
bars of which the felons in the upper wards were allowed to converse with their
friends, or if they wished to enter the room, or join the revellers below, they were
at liberty to do so, on payment of a small fine.
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