I know there’s a sort of right in your impatience at the slowness of Progress. At this juncture, Sir Cecil and his followers appeared at the threshold. Giles's bowl, "as his last refreshment on earth. Besides, I'm afraid her simple honesty will spoil any invented yarn. And yet, on the very site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two centuries ago, stood the princely residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour. He, a Chinaman, troubling himself over Occidental ideas! With his hands in his sleeves, he proceeded on his way. He did not care whether the stories were accepted or not. “You are neither of you in the least like the ordinary boarding-house young man. And no ill-chances. Ah!" he exclaimed, as his eye fell upon a small knob in the wall, "there's the spring!" He touched it, and the door flew open. There MULSACK and SWIFTNECK, both prigs from their birth, OLD MOB and TOM COX took their last draught on earth: There RANDAL, and SHORTER, and WHITNEY pulled up, And jolly JACK JOYCE drank his finishing cup! For a can of ale calms, A highwayman's qualms, And makes him sing blithely his dolorous psalms And nothing the transit to Tyburn beguiles So well as a draught from the Bowl of Saint Giles! "Singing's dry work," observed the stranger, pausing to take a pull at the bottle.
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