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Updated: May 8, 2025
Time was I remember it well when a member of Parliament who knew that there was any place where a lady could get something to eat was pointed to as a Parliamentary marvel, who knew his way about in an uncanny fashion; when the room in which a lady could dine had been seen by but few eyes and, indeed, was little better than a coalhole, low-roofed, dimly lit, buried in dark and deep recesses of an underworld of the House of Commons, as little known to the general member as the sewage catacombs of London to the ordinary citizen.
"In perfect splendour is the creature put up, and I with a bedroom like a coalhole and such drawing-rooms as you see each time you enter the house!" she broke forth spitefully one day when she forgot herself.
"She won't be ashamed of me," Rhoda faltered; and then hummed a little tune, and said firmly "It's no use my trying to look like what I'm not." "No, truly;" Mrs. Sumfit assented. "But it's your bein' behind the fashions what hurt me. As well you might be an old thing like me, for any pleasant looks you'll git. Now, the country you're like in a coalhole for the matter o' that.
A gas jet was flaring in the cupboard, within which it was possible to descry a tin-covered table and some shelves garnished with half-emptied bottles. Whenever the door of this coalhole was opened a violent whiff of alcohol mingled with the scent of stale cooking in the lodge, as well as with the penetrating scent of the flowers upon the table.
The press was immediately pushed into a closet behind the bed; the types were flung into the coalhole, and covered with cinders: the compositor disappeared through a trapdoor in the roof, and made off over the tiles of the neighbouring houses.
"He's asleep near the coalhole," replied Clifton, "and if anybody wants " "I'll take charge of him," answered Pen furiously. "Look out, Pen, he's got teeth that could snap an iron bar in two." "If he moves I'll cut him open," cried Pen, taking his knife in one hand. He bounced in between decks, followed by Warren, who wanted to help him in his undertaking.
I'll unkennel you whoever may be afraid of you, I'm not my name's O'Driscol, sirra Fitzgerald O'Driscol, commonly called for brevity's sake, Fitzy O'Driscol a name, sir, that ought to strike terror into you and if it didn't, it isn't here I'd be hunting you out with you now surrendher, I say, or if you don't upon my honor and conscience you're a dead man. 'What's the matter, sir? I asked 'in Heaven's name, who have you there? 'Who is in the coalhole, father? asked Fergus, with a face whose gravity showed wonderful strength of muscle.
He stepped slowly, feeling with his foot for any curbstone, grating or irregularity in the pavement. And yet he failed in one instance to feel the edge of an open coalhole, and his right leg slipped down into it. Some of the nearby watchers grabbed him, and pulled him back without his sustaining injury, for which he thanked them briefly and continued.
"She won't be ashamed of me," Rhoda faltered; and then hummed a little tune, and said firmly "It's no use my trying to look like what I'm not." "No, truly;" Mrs. Sumfit assented. "But it's your bein' behind the fashions what hurt me. As well you might be an old thing like me, for any pleasant looks you'll git. Now, the country you're like in a coalhole for the matter o' that.
"That's precisely what I am coming to," replied Alick; "the fact was that the martial magistrate, who, I believe in my soul, lay shivering with terror on his bed the whole previous part of the night, on hearing our dialogue with the Whiteboys, and the report of the fire-arms, altogether disappeared, and it was not until two or three searches had been made for him, that he was discovered squatted three double in the coalhole.
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