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With the exception of two or three inconsiderable clusters of cottages which they passed, without stopping, and one lonely road-side public-house where they had some bread and cheese, this highway had led them to nothing late in the afternoon and still lengthened out, far in the distance, the same dull, tedious, winding course, that they had been pursuing all day.
The man from Broadstairs with an eye to salvage took charge of the human wreck, and towed him to the nearest public-house. "A chop and a glass of brandy-and-water," said this good Samaritan of the nineteenth century. "That's what you want. I'm peckish myself, and I'll keep you company."
He was followed by a converted thief, who told how he was 'picked up, and of his persecutions daily while working with twenty unconverted men. "A man in the centre, who had been a great drunkard, said, 'What a miserable wretch I was till the Lord met with me! I used to think I could not do without my pint a day, but the Lord pulled me right bang out of a public-house into a place of worship.
I daresay I surprise you, he went on, 'with my presence in a public-house; but the fact is, I act on a sound but little-known principle of my own 'O, it's better known than you suppose, said Michael sipping his brandy and soda. 'I always act on it myself when I want a drink. The old gentleman, who was anxious to propitiate Michael, laughed a cheerless laugh.
Henery Walker used to hear of 'im through a relation of his up in London, and tell us all about 'im and his money up at this here "Cauliflower" public-house. And he used to sit and drink his beer and wonder who would 'ave the old man's money arter he was dead.
It is now a public-house; and, of course, we alighted and entered its little sitting-room, which, as we at present see it, is a neat apartment, with the modern improvement of a ceiling. The walls are much over-scribbled with names of visitors, and the wooden door of a cupboard in the wainscot, as well as all the other wood-work of the room, is cut and carved with initial letters.
This scandal, when I read it in your letter, was not new to me. I had heard it once before; and I must tell you how. There came to Samoa a man from Honolulu; he, in a public- house on the beach, volunteered the statement that Damien had "contracted the disease from having connection with the female lepers"; and I find a joy in telling you how the report was welcomed in a public-house.
So far as I figure it up, you two children jump out of nowhere and find yourselves here for the first time in your lives; and before I can paint one of you and I'm no snail the other walks into a public-house, freezes on to an absolute stranger, bustles her through one matrimonial affair and has pretty well fixed her with another.
Now at about five o'clock I happened to be standing at the edge of the Market Stairs, watching the efforts of a boat's crew to take a dozen of these inebriates on board for the transport, when I heard my name called, and turned to see Mr. George Goodfellow beckoning to me from the doorway of the Plume of Feathers public-house. "It's Coffin," he explained.
"Compton," said she, "I must speak to Reginald. Can you find him?" "Oh yes, I can find him. I am sorry to say anybody can find him at this time of day." "Why, where is he?" "I hardly like to tell you." "Do you think his peculiarities have escaped me?" "At the public-house." "Ask him to come to me." Compton went to the public-house, and there, to his no small disgust, found Mr.
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