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And then Crossthwaite lost his temper and called the Queen's counsel a hired bully, and so went down; having done, as I was told afterwards, no good to me. And then there followed a passage of tongue fence between Mackaye and some barrister, and great laughter at the barrister's expense; and then.
"Upon my word, I am afraid it is and I'm trapped too." "Blood and turf! thin, it's he that I'll trap, thin. There's two million free and inlightened Irishmen in London, to avenge my marthyrdom wi' pikes and baggonets like raving salviges, and blood for blood!" "Like savages, indeed!" said I to Crossthwaite, "And pretty savage company we are keeping.
A cause we're a top of the house in the first place, and next place yer'll die here six months sooner nor if yer worked in the room below. Aint that logic and science, Orator?" appealing to Crossthwaite. "Why?" asked I. "A cause you get all the other floors' stinks up here as well as your own. Concentrated essence of man's flesh, is this here as you're a breathing.
I whispered my doubts to Crossthwaite, as he sat, pale and determined, watching the excited and querulous discussions among the other workmen. "What? So you expect to have time to read? Study after sixteen hours a day stitching? Study, when you cannot earn money enough to keep you from wasting and shrinking away day by day?
If God's curse is like that I'll be happy to take any man's share of it." Some new idea seemed twinkling in the fellow's cunning bloated face as he spoke. I, and others also, shuddered at his words; but we all forgot them a moment afterwards, as Crossthwaite began to speak. "We were all bound to expect this.
He was a Chartist, and with him and Crossthwaite, my old fellow-workman, I was vowed to the Good Cause of the Charter. Now I found that I had fallen under suspicion. "Can you wonder if our friends suspect you?" said Crossthwaite. "Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkeydom and the Cause, like a donkey between two bundles of hay? Have you not neglected our meetings?
I never shall forget one evening's walk, as Crossthwaite and I strode back together from the Convention. We had walked on some way arm in arm in silence, under the crushing and embittering sense of having something to conceal something, which if those who passed us so carelessly in the street had known ! It makes a villain and a savage of a man, that consciousness of a dark, hateful secret.
Crossthwaite, you know, would have sailed ere now, had it not been for your fever. Next week you start with him for Texas, No; make no objections. All expenses are defrayed no matter by whom." "By you! By you! Who else?" "Do you think that I monopolize the generosity of England? Do you think warm hearts beat only in the breasts of working men?
Ay, even on the slaves and on the handmaidens in those days will I pour out my spirit, saith the Lord!" "And that is really in the Bible?" asked Crossthwaite. "Ay" she went on, her figure dilating, and her eyes flashing, like an inspired prophetess "that is in the Bible! What would you more than that? That is your charter; the only ground of all charters.
Give me some on it if it is it'll save me washing my face." And he took hold of my hair and pulled my head back. "I'll tell you what, Jemmy Downes," said Crossthwaite, in a voice which made him draw back, "if you don't drop that, I'll give you such a taste of my tongue as shall turn you blue." "You'd better try it on then. Do only just now if you please." "Be quiet, you fool!" said another.
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