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Good, steady men we were, most of us, none of your blundering Irish, that wouldn't know a maple from a hickory, with their gin-bottles in their pockets, but our solid, Down-East Yankee heads, owning their farms all along the river, with schooling enough to know what they were about 'lection day.

After he had eaten dinner with Ruth, he had gone to McClintock's; and he had heard music such as he had heard only in the great concert halls. The picturesque scoundrel had the true gift; and Spurlock was filled with pity at the thought of such genius gone to pot. To use it as a passport to card-tables and gin-bottles!

At the bottom of the valley, between high rocky banks clothed with ferns and creepers, ran a stream which widened out into a pool covered with water-lilies. In the dim light was seen a small island, and upon it a rude shelter surrounded by a fence of gun- barrels. Lying about were gin-bottles, cooking-pots, and human skulls, the witness of past orgies.

Aldous looked round the room at the miserable filthy garret with its begrimed and peeling wall-paper, its two or three broken chairs, its heap of rags across two boxes that served for a bed; its empty gin-bottles here and there all the familiar, one might almost say conventionalised, signs of human ruin and damnation then at this breathing death between himself and her.