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Updated: May 28, 2025
I took a room, and she came. She came one day in November; I should have liked to put off her visit because I had no fire, and I had no fire because the chimney smoked. The very evening before, I had spoken to my landlord, a retired shopkeeper, about it, and he had promised that he would send for the chimneysweep in a day or two to get it all put to rights.
Two or three half drunken men and women bellow and blaspheme opposite the sufferer's house for an hour at a time. And then the chimneysweep renews his rounds, and the milkman follows him. The screams of costermongers and of rowdies might surely be suppressed by the police. A system of "local option" might be introduced.
"I stood up in rage, ready to jump at his throat, and shouted: "'What the deuce are you doing in my room? "The chimneysweep laughed so that he let his brush fall on the floor. The porter looked as if he were going out of his mind, and the landlord stammered: "'But, Monsieur, it was it was about the chimney the chimney, the chimney which "'Go to the devil! I roared.
I turned around to let him have the weight of my tongue when who should I see dodging along Stony Batter only Joe Hynes. Lo, Joe, says I. How are you blowing? Did you see that bloody chimneysweep near shove my eye out with his brush? Soot's luck, says Joe. Who's the old ballocks you were talking to? Old Troy, says I, was in the force.
My thoughts began to whirl over all Comyn had said of her so that I scarce heard a question Miss Tayloe had put. "Marry Chartersea! That profligate pig!" Comyn was saying. "She would as soon marry a chairman or a chimneysweep, I'm thinking. Why, Miss Tayloe, Sir Charles Grandison himself would scarce suit her!" "Good lack!" said Betty, "I think Sir Charles would be the very last for Dorothy."
My thoughts began to whirl over all Comyn had said of her so that I scarce heard a question Miss Tayloe had put. "Marry Chartersea! That profligate pig!" Comyn was saying. "She would as soon marry a chairman or a chimneysweep, I'm thinking. Why, Miss Tayloe, Sir Charles Grandison himself would scarce suit her!" "Good lack!" said Betty, "I think Sir Charles would be the very last for Dorothy."
To her, another lady, apple-woman by trade, who had saved a fortune of ten thousand pounds and hidden it 'here and there, in cracks and corners, behind bricks and under the flooring. To her, a French gentleman, who had crammed up his chimney, rather to the detriment of its drawing powers, 'a leather valise, containing twenty thousand francs, gold coins, and a large quantity of precious stones, as discovered by a chimneysweep after his death.
"'O h! The setting sun, magnificent and red, shone full into the room through the door, which was wide open, and seemed to look at us from the verge of the horizon, illuminating us both, especially my companion, who was screaming, struggling, and twisting, and trying with hands and feet to get under the sofa, while in the middle of the room stood my landlord by the side of the concierge and a chimneysweep, as black as the devil, who were looking at us with stupid eyes.
More dimly, then, somewhere in mist behind, he saw other figures moving the Dustman and the Lamplighter, the Demon Chimneysweep in black, the Woman of the Haystack outposts and sentries of a larger fascinating host that gathered waiting in the shadows just beyond. The creations of his boy's imagination swarmed up from their temporary graves, and made him smile and wonder.
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