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But he never gathers much at a time. The moment he sees anybody else gathering he forgets his own work and goes spying to see where others are hiding their store. The little chipmunk, who knows his thieving and his devices, always makes one turn, at least, in the tunnel to his den too small for Meeko to follow.
"He speaks true, noble Lord," said one of the band: "we have wandered too far out of our beat; we are in their very den; the palace of old Stephen Colonna is within call; and, to my knowledge," added he, in a whisper, "eighteen fresh men-of-arms ay, and Northmen too marched through its gates this day."
"We are not very presentable to ladies, Miss Verne," remarked a rather handsome boy of thirteen, possessed with that I-am-a-man look so amusing and comical. "Oh, Madge, what good luck brought you to our den? Come let us make 'old maid' of you, I've been 'old bachelor' six times."
This arrangement has the two-fold effect of admitting an increase of light into the den, and of affording a ready means of access to such as might scruple to descend, collier-fashion, in a basket.
The street door was open, and, after groping their way along the dark passage, with its pitfalls, they found themselves in the open street. "Thank heaven," said Calton, taking off his hat, and drawing a long breath. "Thank heaven we are safely out of that den!" "At all events, our journey has not been wasted," said the detective, as they walked along. "We've found out where Mr.
Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild answer from Jondrette. "Pardieu! I'll go and get one of our neighbor's." And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out into the corridor. Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. "Take the candle," cried Jondrette.
"Den, sar, I tell you I tink it right that they first come and ask to come on board before you take them and, sar, I tink it also right, as we are but two and they are five, dat they first eat all their provision let 'em starve plenty, and den dey come on board tame enough." "At all events," replied Jack, "the first overtures of some kind or another must come from them.
Razumov, biting his lip till blood came to keep himself from bursting into imprecations, followed the owner of the den, who, whispering "Come along, little father," led him into a tiny hole of a place behind the wooden counter, whence proceeded a sound of splashing.
When the night, the longest night, as it chanced, of the year, approached, forth came from every den of vice, from the bear garden at Hockley, and from the labyrinth of tippling houses and brothels in the Friars, thousands of housebreakers and highwaymen, cutpurses and ringdroppers. With these were mingled thousands of idle apprentices, who wished merely for the excitement of a riot.
A leetle vork under a goot teacher, and den, mein Gott! Vot is it de musicians say? the genius has a Cremona inside of him on which he first composes his immortal vorks. You haf the Cremona, my dear, and I will help you to bring it out. Vot you tink?"
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