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The light of the policeman's lantern glared over the ghastly scene along the double row of miserable house-backs, which lined the sides of the open tidal ditch over strange rambling jetties, and balconies, and sleeping-sheds, which hung on rotting piles over the black waters, with phosphorescent scraps of rotten fish gleaming and twinkling out of the dark hollows, like devilish grave-lights over bubbles of poisonous gas, and bloated carcases of dogs, and lumps of offal, floating on the stagnant olive-green hell-broth over the slow sullen rows of oily ripple which were dying away into the darkness far beyond, sending up, as they stirred, hot breaths of miasma the only sign that a spark of humanity, after years of foul life, had quenched itself at last in that foul death.
She would give one of those two grave-lights there, which she calls her eyes, to see the thing prosper. 'Why? 'Your excellency will know when the letter comes. Here she is; I hear steps in the cloister. Now, one bet before they enter. I give you two to one she asks you to turn pagan. 'What in? Negro-boys? 'Anything you like. 'Taken. Come in, slaves? And Hypocorisma entered, pouting.
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