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"Hell! you can't do any good alone," Eddie protested, coming after him. "We'll go look for her, Mr. Birnie, but we've got to have something so we can see. If Jerry could dig up a couple of lanterns " "You wait. I'm coming along," Jerry called guardedly. "I'll bring lanterns." To Bud that time of waiting was torment.
But you take your coat and tie your horse's feet, and I'll tie mine. I can't tie you, Mr. Birnie. We'll chance it together." Bud did not say anything at all, for which Eddie seemed grateful.
Would Mr Bentham think that the Whiggery of Bow Street was in the wrong? We blamed Mr Mill for deducing his theory of government from the principles of human nature. "In the name of Sir Richard Birnie and all saints," cries Mr Bentham, "from what else should it be deduced?" In spite of this solemn adjuration, with shall venture to answer Mr Bentham's question by another.
It was, in truth, Gawtrey's custom when Birnie retired for the night, to rub his hands, bring out the punchbowl, squeeze the lemons, and while Philip, stretched on the sofa, listened to him, between sleep and waking, to talk on for the hour together, often till daybreak, with that bizarre mixture of knavery and feeling, drollery and sentiment, which made the dangerous charm of his society.
"And, after all, Birnie is a useful fellow, and dare no more turn against me than I against him! Why don't you drink more? "Oh! have you e'er heard of the famed Captain Wattle?" and Gawtrey broke out into a loud Bacchanalian hymn, in which Philip could find no mirth, and from which the songster suddenly paused to exclaim:
He and Birnie exchanged silent nods; and the former, leaving his work, conducted them up a very filthy flight of stairs to an attic, where a bed, two stools, one table, and an old walnut-tree bureau formed the sole articles of furniture. Gawtrey looked rather ruefully round the black, low, damp walls, and said in a crestfallen tone: "We were better off at the Temple of Hymen.
Birnie were holding commune in the lane, the sounds of festivity were heard from a house in the adjoining street. To that house we are now summoned. At Paris, the gaieties of balls, or soirees, are, I believe, very rare in that period of the year in which they are most frequent in London. The entertainment now given was in honour of a christening; the lady who gave it, a relation of the new-born.
"My young friend," interrupted Gawtrey, "whether the officer comes after us or not, our trade is ruined; that infernal Adele, with her fabulous grandmaman, has done for us. Goupille will blow the temple about our ears. No help for it eh, Birnie?" "None." "Go to bed, Philip: we'll call thee at daybreak, for we must make clear work before our neighbours open their shutters."
Now to yourself: our savings are less than you might expect; to be sure, Birnie has been treasurer, and I have laid by a little for Fanny, which I will rather starve than touch. There remain, however, 150 napoleons, and our effects, sold at a fourth their value, will fetch 150 more. Here is your share. I have compassion on you. I told you I would bear you harmless and innocent.
He drew aside Gawtrey, and whispered him, as usual, for some moments. Gawtrey nodded his head, and then said aloud "To-morrow we shall talk without reserve before my young friend. To-night he joins us." "To-night! very well," said Birnie, with his cold sneer. "He must take the oath; and you, with your life, will be responsible for his honesty?" "Ay! it is the rule."
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