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Still, it was nothing but a bare hypothesis until we had seen Futashima and, indeed, is no more now. I may, after all, be entirely mistaken." He was not, however; and at this moment there reposes in my drawing-room an ancient netsuke, which came as a thank-offering from Mr. Isaac Löwe on the recovery of the booty from a back room in No. 13, Birket Street, Limehouse.
When they saw how beautiful you are and well educated and refined, they wouldn't believe you came from such a place as Limehouse." Carrie smiled. "I seem refined to you, because you didn't expect much where you found me. Put me beside your sisters and their friends, and I should be shy and awkward enough. No, I will not listen, and I want you to tell the driver to stop here."
Rita, as she entered the car, noticed that Juan Mareno, Sir Lucien's man, and not the chauffeur with whom she was acquainted, sat at the wheel. As they drove off: "Why is Mareno driving tonight, Lucy?" she asked. Sir Lucien glanced aside at her. "He is in my confidence," he replied. "Fraser is not." "Oh, I see. You don't want Fraser to know about the Limehouse journey?" "Naturally I don't.
When, an hour and a half after setting out in the commandeered Rolls-Royce, Kerry groped blindly along Limehouse Causeway, it was through a yellow murk that he made his way a vapour which could not only be seen, smelled and felt, but tasted. He was in one of his most violent humours.
But if money had been withdrawn from this, it had been invested elsewhere, and the great sum borrowed from Madame Jaquetanape's fortune had been in no part replaced one full moiety of it had been taken may one not say stolen? to enable Alaric and Undy to continue their speculations. The undertaking to which they were now both wedded was the Limehouse and Rotherhithe Bridge.
He decided that a visit to Limehouse, to the neighborhood where the property of the late Mr. Horne had been situated, would be better than another visit to Dudley. Plumtree Wharf was, he knew, the name of the most important part of the property which had belonged to Dudley's father.
During many years sojourn East and South, in the course of many wanderings from Billingsgate to Limehouse Hole, from Petticoat Lane to Whitechapel Road; out of eel-pie shop and penny gaff; out of tavern and street, and court and doss-house, he had gathered together slang words and terms and phrases, and they came back to him now, and he stood up against her manfully.
I took his hand kindly in my own. "Casting a shadow o'er hill and dale," I repeated quietly, leading him up the subject, "like Come, now." "Ah!" he said, pressing my hand tremulously, "you know it?" "I do. Why is it like the eh the commodious mansion on the Limehouse Road?" A blank stare only followed. He shook his head sadly. "Like the young men wanted for a light, genteel employment?"
It was not in order to impress such people as must undoubtedly live behind those faded red curtains that he had unpacked from the state-room locker his shore-going hat, high, and of fair, round shape, such as is only to be bought in the shadow of Limehouse steeple. The house was uninviting. It had a furtive, dishonest look about it. Captain Cable saw this.
The other day, finding myself under this kind of obligation to proceed to Limehouse, I started punctually at noon, in compliance with the terms of the contract with myself to which my good faith was pledged. On such an occasion, it is my habit to regard my walk as my beat, and myself as a higher sort of police-constable doing duty on the same.
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