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Updated: June 21, 2025
When all was ready, Hugh and Dennis, with Simon Tappertit between them, led the way. Roaring and chafing like an angry sea, the crowd pressed after them. Instead of going straight down Holborn to the jail, as all expected, their leaders took the way to Clerkenwell, and pouring down a quiet street, halted before a locksmith's house the Golden Key.
Cheer up, captain! cried Hugh, when they had roared themselves out of breath. 'Another stave! Mr Tappertit, nothing loath, began again; and so the three went staggering on, arm-in-arm, shouting like madmen, and defying the watch with great valour.
'Why, you see, said Hugh, crawling a little nearer to him, 'that our noble captain yonder, came in yesterday morning rather the worse for liquor, and was like you and me ditto last night. Dennis looked to where Simon Tappertit lay coiled upon a truss of hay, snoring profoundly, and nodded.
At length, after the clock had struck two, there was a sound at the street door, as if somebody had fallen against the knocker by accident. Miss Miggs immediately jumping up and clapping her hands, cried with a drowsy mingling of the sacred and profane, 'Ally Looyer, mim! there's Simmuns's knock! 'Who's there? said Gabriel. 'Me! cried the well-known voice of Mr Tappertit.
A further delay ensued, but it was not of long duration. The ground seemed to open at his feet, and a ragged head appeared. 'Is that the captain? said a voice as ragged as the head. 'Yes, replied Mr Tappertit haughtily, descending as he spoke, 'who should it be? 'It's so late, we gave you up, returned the voice, as its owner stopped to shut and fasten the grating. 'You're late, sir.
Mr Tappertit waved his grizzly truncheon as an admonition to him not to interrupt, and ordered three black crosses to the name of Curzon. 'Which means, he said in gracious explanation, 'vengeance, complete and terrible. 'Prentice, do you love the Constitution? 'The Church, the State, and everything established but the masters? quoth the captain. Again the novice said 'I do.
It was more, perhaps, with an eye to the danger which lurked in this quarter, than from his abstract love of conversation with the sex, that the hangman, quickening his steps, now hastened into their society, cursing the amorous natures of Hugh and Mr Tappertit with great heartiness, at every step he took.
'In the name of God, no! shrieked the widow, darting forward. 'Barnaby my lord see he'll come back Barnaby Barnaby! 'Women in the field! cried Hugh, stepping between them, and holding her off. 'Holloa! My captain there! 'What's the matter here? cried Simon Tappertit, bustling up in a great heat. 'Do you call this order?
Sim, as he was called in the locksmith's family, or Mr Simon Tappertit, as he called himself, and required all men to style him out of doors, on holidays, and Sundays out, was an old-fashioned, thin-faced, sleek-haired, sharp-nosed, small-eyed little fellow, very little more than five feet high, and thoroughly convinced in his own mind that he was above the middle size; rather tall, in fact, than otherwise.
In these proceedings, Mr Dennis, who had a gruff voice and lungs of considerable power, distinguished himself very much, and acquired great credit with his two companions. 'What a queer fellow you are! said Mr Tappertit. 'You're so precious sly and close. Why don't you ever tell what trade you're of?
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