There was a brief pause, a crowded pause, between them. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ‘Seen her again, have you? Well, if she’s been giving you as much saucy impudence as I’ve had to contend with, I can only say I’m glad of it. “There are no males at men to stare; A man scores always, everywhere. "Go to the pump, Nab," he said, when this was done, "and fill a pail with water. Lucy studied Katy for the rest of the game. While this took place, while Quilt thundered at the inner door, and Jack drew back the bolts of the outer, a deep, manly voice was heard chanting—as if in contempt of the general uproar—the following strain:— With pipe and punch upon the board, And smiling nymphs around us; No tavern could more mirth afford Than old Saint Giles's round-house! The round-house! the round-house! The jolly—jolly round-house! "The jolly, jolly round-house!" chorussed Sheppard, as the last bar yielded to his efforts. "Ruth?" "Hoddy!" she cried. When they reached the door, he kissed her 246 again. But David Courtlaw has been here. She could hear him from the lower floor as he locked the gates and drew up the wooden part of the bridge. "Strange!" observed the Master; "I thought he'd been at my elbow all this time. Move. Her stifled misery had betrayed her. Gosse must now fight with his back to the altar, and a dais at his heels.
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