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Its public monument is a cyclopean prison: save for the desert around the Great Northern Goods Depot, its only open ground is a malodorous cattle-market. In comparison, Lambeth is picturesque and venerable, St. Giles's is romantic, Hoxton is clean and suggestive of domesticity, Whitechapel is full of poetry, Limehouse is sweet with sea-breathings. Hither Mrs. Ormonde drove from Victoria Station.
"Why not? She is my wife." I rose and walked about the room in agitation. Somehow such a contingency had not entered my bewildered head. "Why not, Sir Marcus?" he repeated. "Because Judith isn't that kind of woman at all," I said, desperately. "She doesn't like Hoxton, and would be as much out of place in a tin-mission church as I should be in a cavalry charge."
It is well worth recording that in 1775, while Mary Wollstonecraft was living in Hoxton, William Godwin was a student at the Dissenting College in that town. Godwin, in his short Memoir of his wife, pauses to speculate as to what would have been the result had they then met and loved.
Hoxton had already granted a holiday to the school; every boy with whom they had any connection should come to dinner, and Edward Anderson should be asked to meet Harry on his return, because, poor fellow, he was so improved. Dr. May was in such a transport of kind-hearted schemes, that he was not easily made to hear that Harry had not a sixpence wherewith to reach London.
"Pity he has so many of the good doctor's prejudices!" "Well, to be sure!" quoth Mrs. Ledwich. "I knew Mr. Norman was very clever, but I declare I never thought of such as this! I will try my poor utmost for those interesting natives." "That youth has first-rate talents," said Lord Cosham. "Do you know what he is designed for? I should like to bring him forward." "Ah!" said Dr. Hoxton.
What sort of a spectacle would be exhibited by the public-houses in Hoxton and Islington at closing time to-night? 'But, pursued Richard with emphasis, 'what is the meaning of these vices? What do they come of? Who's to blame for them? Not the working class never tell me! What drives a man to drink in his spare hours? What about the poisonous air of garrets and cellars?
'I shall be more useful there than at the hall. 'As you like, said Mutimer lightly. The subject was not pursued. Though the occasion was of so much importance, Commonwealth Hall contained but a moderate audience when Mr. Westlake rose to deliver his address. The people who occupied the benches were obviously of a different stamp from those wont to assemble at the Hoxton meeting-place.
First he placed her in a lodging at Hackney, and spent all his Sundays and holidays with her. Then they lived together; he watching the moods that foreshadowed a mad fit, and taking her when needful, a willing patient, to the Hoxton asylum till the fit was over.
Never were Easter gifts the source of more pleasure to the givers, especially when the nursery establishment met Dr. Hoxton near the pastrycook's shop, and he bestowed on Blanche a packet of variegated sugar-plums, all of which she literally poured out at Ethel's feet, saying, "I don't want them. Only let me have one for Aubrey, because he is so little.
"That's the third thing you have taught me to thread a needle, tie a bow, and stick in a pin! I never could learn those things of any one else; they show, but don't explain the theory." They met Dr. May at the entrance of the town, very tired, and saying he had been a long tramp, all over the place, and Mrs. Hoxton had been boring him with her fancies.
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