" He signalled to Ah Cum; and the two of them crossed on foot into the city. The Frenchman had moved back into Piccadilly from Down Street, at which the lad following him had immediately sauntered away a yard or two. This morning his entourage (as he jestingly called it) consisted of the girl, two spinsters (Prudence and Angelina Jedson), prim and doubtful of the world, and the young man who appeared to be considerably the worse for the alcohol he had consumed. ” He sidled toward her, but she recoiled from him, leaving him in possession of the hearth-rug. There was scant social life on the Sha-mien aside from masculine foregatherings, little that interested him. The last,—in all respects the best and airiest of the three, standing, as has been before observed, in Phoenix Court, at the rear of the main fabric,—was reserved for state-offenders, and such persons as chose to submit to the extortionate demands of the keeper: from twenty to five hundred pounds premium, according to the rank and means of the applicant, in addition to a high weekly rent, being required for accommodation in this quarter. I believe that his recovery was considered almost miraculous. Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. A little smothered cry broke from her lips—the curtains were thrown aside and a man stepped out. " "Leave you!" echoed the ruffian, with a contemptuous laugh; "—not just yet. We may meet—who can tell? But I will not be fettered, even though you would make the chains of roses. At the sight of her he became rigid and a singularly bright shade of pink.
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