Part 3 For a time they walked in silence through the back streets that lead southward from the College. Hearing the spring touched, he dashed through on the instant, and struck down the person who presented himself, with his bludgeon. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. ’ ‘Aye, more’s the pity. ’ Chapter Ten ‘I am come on a mission of some delicacy, ma’am,’ Gerald said calmly to the old lady. 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. It seemed to him that speech would be an anticlimax. His bravado waxed and he asked her to what would be her first date in nearly twenty years. A new thought checked her steps and she froze. “Lucy Albert. —Though if my name should become as famous as theirs, it wouldn't much matter. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to be turned to account hereafter. For five minutes he has been trying to think of something to say.
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