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Updated: May 29, 2025
'That's just what I mean, said her interlocutor. 'It would finish it beautifully for her to marry me. 'Have you finished yours, my dear? Mrs. Temperly inquired. 'The way you young people talk about marrying! she exclaimed, looking at the itinerant functionary with the long wand who touched into a flame the tall gas-lamp on the other side of the Fifth Avenue.
A little time afterwards, witness saw a slighter and older man come forth from the arch, whom he could only examine by the flickering ray of the gas-lamp near the wall, the lightning having ceased, but whom he fully believed to be the person he afterwards discovered to be Sir Philip Derval.
The cab was now in a steep and narrow street leading down from the Strand to the Thames Embankment a street that was obscure and that looked sad and evil by night. Artois glanced out at it, and Hermione, seeing that he did so, followed his eyes. They saw a man and a woman quarrelling under a gas-lamp. The woman was cursing and crying. The man put out his hand and pushed her roughly.
They had sought a haven and found none; the brit lay dying in flickering iridescent heaps as the bare-legged babies of the village gathered them up; and far away over the water I saw a single grey speck; it was the following bird. The curtain of river haze falls back; barge and bird are alike gone, and the lamplighter has lit the first gas-lamp on the far side of the bridge.
The big fellow hesitated; then a happy thought occurred to him: he dragged his captive across the paved playground, and stopping under the gas-lamp which lit up the archway leading into the quadrangle, began a hasty examination of the contents of the latter's pockets.
"There's a gen'leman waiting for yer," he said. Outside the little station there was a flickering gas-lamp, and by its light Biddy saw a farmer's spring-cart standing in the road with a small rough pony harnessed to it; in it there sat a young man very much muffled up in a number of cloaks he wore a wide-awake pulled well down over his face, and was smoking a pipe.
'Dinna ye ken me? she said pitifully, turning a little towards the light of the gas-lamp, and looking up in his face. 'It canna be Jessie Hewson? said Robert, his heart swelling at the sight of the pale worn countenance of the girl. 'I was Jessie Hewson ance, she said, 'but naebody here kens me by that name but yersel'. Will ye come in? There's no a crater i' the hoose but mysel'.
At last he could bear no more, and breaking away from his tormentors with a violent effort, he ran frantically down the silent road towards a house which he knew from former visits to be Dr. Grimstone's. He was but languidly pursued, and, as the distance was short, he soon gained a gate on the stuccoed posts of which he could read "Crichton House" by the light of a neighbouring gas-lamp.
She was leaning against the wall of the passage, and David could just see the defiance and agitation on her face by the light of the gas-lamp outside. He himself gave a low whistle. 'Well, that's rather strong, isn't it, Miss Purcell? 'It's mean it's abominable, she cried. 'I vowed I'd stop it. But I don't know what he'll do to me kill me, most likely.
While I walked around one side of the church, they must have gone the other and lain in wait for me." His wound began to pain him; he stood under a gas-lamp to examine it. It did not appear to be dangerous, but the arm was cut through to the bone. He tore his handkerchief into four bands, and tied his arm up with the dexterity of a surgeon.
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