haltamont's

Updated: January 21, 2026

And then Miss Shum went bouncing up the stairs again, little knowing of Haltamont's return. I'd long before observed that my master had an anchoring after Mary Shum; indeed, as I have said, it was purely for her sake that he took and kep his lodgings at Pentonwille.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush