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But, while returning among those lanes of light, Durdles becomes so very uncertain, both of foot and speech, that he half drops, half throws himself down, by one of the heavy pillars, scarcely less heavy than itself, and indistinctly appeals to his companion for forty winks of a second each. 'If you will have it so, or must have it so, replies Jasper, 'I'll not leave you here.
Once again, an unaccountable expedition this! But he contemplates Durdles quite as curiously, and Durdles is by times conscious of his watchful eyes. Only by times, because Durdles is growing drowsy. As aeronauts lighten the load they carry, when they wish to rise, similarly Durdles has lightened the wicker bottle in coming up. Snatches of sleep surprise him on his legs, and stop him in his talk.
And you are my friend. 'Don't you get into a bad habit of boasting, retorts Durdles, with a grave cautionary nod. 'It'll grow upon you. 'You are out of temper, says Sapsea again; reddening, but again sinking to the company. 'I own to it, returns Durdles; 'I don't like liberties. Mr.
I will tell Durdles to be careful of it. He will mind what I say. How is it at present endangered? he inquires, looking about him with magnificent patronage. 'Only by my making a moonlight expedition with Durdles among the tombs, vaults, towers, and ruins, returns Jasper. 'You remember suggesting, when you brought us together, that, as a lover of the picturesque, it might be worth my while?
'Take him home, then, retorts Jasper, ferociously, though with a strong check upon himself, 'and let my eyes be rid of the sight of you! Deputy, with another sharp whistle, at once expressing his relief, and his commencement of a milder stoning of Mr. Durdles, begins stoning that respectable gentleman home, as if he were a reluctant ox. Mr. Jasper goes to his gatehouse, brooding.
Jasper examines the part of the precincts in the shadow of the Cathedral, because he wishes to assure himself that it is lonely enough for his later undescribed but easily guessed proceedings in this night of mystery. He will have much to do that could not brook witnesses, after the drugged Durdles has fallen sound asleep.
Such was the occupation of the small boy, Deputy, night after night, week after week, month after month, during the year when we catch a glimpse of him, and it is reasonable to suppose that the remainder of his life, after we lose sight of him was spent, in making a cock-shy of everything that came in his way, whether Durdles or inanimate objects.
Later in the evening Jasper finds Durdles more or less drunk, and being stoned by a gamin, "Deputy," a retainer of a tramp's lodging-house. Durdles fees Deputy, in fact, to drive him home every night after ten. Jasper and Deputy fall into feud, and Jasper has thus a new, keen, and omnipresent enemy. Old 'un crumbled away in stone coffin, in vault."
He instantly gets himself together, backs over to Durdles, and cries to his assailant, gnashing the great gap in front of his mouth with rage and malice: 'I'll blind yer, s'elp me! I'll stone yer eyes out, s'elp me!
He has also had time to convey several wheelbarrowfuls of quicklime from Durdles's yard to Mrs. Sapsea's sepulchre, of which monument he probably took the key from Durdles, and tried its identity by clinking.
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