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Raymond, and ask him to do something for Sal's Nanny, as the girl was called. By the time he got up the area-steps, three or four women who had seen him go down were standing together at the top waiting for him. They wanted his clothes for their children; but they did not follow him down lest Sal should find them there.
Paul, full of meat, and singing to himself behind his pipe, walked homeward with a flask of that good liquor in his pocket, and there behind was the landlord clinging to the railings at the bottom of the area-steps and maundering to a policeman. 'Five shillings 'storted by threats. Tha's the man, said the landlord.
He looked round for water, but the poor woman had been too weak to drag herself out to the distant pump, and water there was none. He snatched the child, and ran up the area-steps to the room above, and borrowed their only saucepan with some water in it. The mouth opened mechanically to receive more, and gradually she revived.
Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker, and the fan-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigable white-washing, and hearth-stoning, and scrubbing and rubbing, could make them.
She'll come out again; she's one of the gues's, she is, I said, 'and him too, and I'll wait till she does come out and then I'll catch her and have it out with her even if it means policemen. And the area-gate being unfastened, I slipped down the area-steps, sir, with my eye on the front-door. And that was what did me.
Bessie herself opened to him, and after a shrewd glance, made as though she would close the door again. 'Nothing for you! The idea of beggars coming down the area-steps Be off! 'I'm worse than a beggar, replied Sidney. 'Housebreaking's more in my line. And he attempted to force an entrance. Bessie struggled, but had to give in, overcome with laughter.
I had to sit down on the stone steps, sir, because of my varicose veins and then one of the servants comes in from the street, sir, and I more like dropped down the area-steps, sir, than walked, sir, and hid between two dustbins, and when the coast was clear I went up again and found gate locked and nothing doing. And it's as true as I'm standing here sitting, I should say." Mr.
It's the hat, sir, he added. Simon had certainly surpassed himself that day. He had begun by surpassing himself at early morning, and he had kept it up. Probably never before in his life had he been so loquacious and so happy in his loquacity. 'That's not a bad scheme, Simon, said Hugo. 'Try it. The brothers went down the area-steps while Hugo remained at the gate.
She must have left while you were down among the dustbins, Mrs. Milcher that is to be. She paid you something for your trouble, quite possibly. If so, give the money to the poor. That will be the best way to be converted." "So I will, sir." "Yes. And now you must go." He unlocked the door and opened it. "Quick. Quietly. Into the area, and up the area-steps. And stop a moment.
Few of them knew much of London except the nearest way between this street and their work, and their most interesting visitor was a Presbyterian minister, most of whose congregation lived in much more fashionable parts, but they were almost exclusively servant girls, and when descending area-steps to visit them he had been challenged often and jocularly by policemen, which perhaps was what gave him a subdued and furtive appearance.
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