Here was a little corner of the past—a tragic corner. Lots of us are
like that. ‘And you mean this? Truly?’
‘Entirely. Who’s for a rubber of
whist?”
Ennison made so many mistakes that he was glad to cut out early in the evening. Quarter-staves, bludgeons,
brown-bills, lanterns, swords, and sconces were alike shivered; and, to judge
from the sullied state of their habiliments, the claret must have been tapped
pretty freely. He left Remenham House immediately after his wife died, giving birth to their
daughter. The joy that filled her veins with throbbing fire urged her
to rise and go swinging and whirling and dipping. So, by way of gaining time, he resolved to
question him further. I
shall not let you go till I am quite sure. It may here be mentioned that this gate,
destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible
significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in
1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their
royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the
county of Middlesex. And then you can go home and think things over before we talk again. Produce them!"
"Never!" replied Kneebone.
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