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Updated: July 27, 2025
If I should not visit you till I come to liberate you on the evening of the second day, or the morning of the third you must not be at all surprised, my good fellow. There is plenty of food-and water to last you. But mind, on no account descend the stone-stairs till I come for you." With that, bidding his guest adieu, he left him. Israel stood glancing pensively around for a time.
Narrow, rough, steep old stone-stairs ran up between and inside the houses, all the doors of which were open to the air here, however, none of the sweetest. Everywhere was shadow; everywhere one or another evil odour; everywhere a look of abject and dirty poverty to an English eye, that is.
"Jist tak' ye tent, bantam," returned Mr Cupples, who had suddenly assumed a listening attitude, with his head on one side, "or ye mayna tell the neist. Hark!" From far below arose the dull sound of many feet on the stone-stairs. Mr Cupples listened for a moment as if fascinated, then turning quietly in his chair, put the poker in the fire. Alec rose.
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