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Then off went Aunt Becky to something else; and in a little time remembered the famous academy in Martin's-row, and looking at her watch, took her leave in a prodigious hurry, and followed by Dominick, in full livery, and two dogs, left Lilias again to the society of her own sad thoughts. So time crept on, and the day arrived when Sturk must pay his rent, or take the ugly consequences.
As Toole debouched from Martin's-row, on his return, into the comparative amplitude of the main street of Chapelizod, he glanced curiously up to Sturk's bed-room windows. There were none of the white signals of death there.
'You observe that? and he pointed specially to the transverse line across the heel. 'Do you know that? The woman assented. 'Who made or mended these shoes? 'Bill Heaney, the shoemaker, down in Martin's-row, there 'twas he made them, and mended them, too, Sir.
She broke one of the coach windows in Martin's-row, and the other there, just opposite the Phoenix. The glass was glittering on the road. 'She had rings on her hand, and her knuckles were bleeding, and it was said 'twas poor Mrs. Nutter going away with the keepers to a mad-house. Toole turned pale and ground his teeth, looking towards Dublin.
Little Doctor Toole came out feeling rather queer and stunned from Sturk's house. It was past three o'clock by this time, and it had already, in his eyes, a changed and empty look, as his upturned eye for a moment rested upon its gray front, and the window-panes glittering in the reddening sun. He looked down the street towards the turnpike, and then up it, towards Martin's-row and the Mills.
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