We girls, my sister and I, were left quite alone when our father died, and I made up my mind to make some little place in the world for myself. ‘I’ve never found a woman who did not drive me into a frenzy of boredom. The will to live had returned. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. ’ ‘It is you who is absurd,’ countered Melusine, the spark returning to her eye. ’ ‘Ah, the matter begins to come clear,’ Gerald said. Gerald, meanwhile, was off hunting up these lawyers, together with your son, ma’am—’ turning to Mrs Sindlesham ‘—and you know the outcome of that. “I think you are getting to understand me better. ‘It must have been so, Melusine, or I wouldn’t have kissed you. At least I can’t talk to them. Hugging them, they crept stealthily around the house, Major Alderley leading, and wasting—so his captain acidly commented—a deal of time checking the windows and doors. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN WILD. ‘Scream and you are dead,’ he snapped, and released her mouth so that he might open the door. She described the Goopes and the Fabians to him, and gave him a sketch of her landlady; and he talked in the most liberal and entertaining way of a modern young woman’s outlook.
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