And her mother, looking unusually alert
and hectic, wore cream and brown also, made up in a more complicated manner. The birds were singing blithely amid the trees,—the
lowing of the cows resounded from the yard,—a delicious perfume from the
garden was wafted through the open window,—at a distance, the church-bells of
Willesden were heard tolling for evening service. I shall
quit it and go abroad. Out of these he selected a faded parchment and restored
the rest to safety. 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. He could not tell whether she was English or American. The strong potation he had taken, combined with fatigue and anxiety he
had previously undergone, made him oversleep himself, and when he awoke it
was just beginning to grow light. Certain reserves went down on both sides. He would stare at her intensely when
he was certain his parents were not looking in his
direction. He
was a large oafish man, a man that seemed deceptively
harmless, and some thought him slightly retarded. This, then,
was the woman from whom Hoddy would not have accepted a cup of water.
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