The roof was partially
untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported
by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the
windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases,
the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left
free to the airs of heaven. “She appears to be very popular here,” she remarked. ’ She smiled on the last words, adding, ‘Oh, I don’t blame you for trying. She always dawdled, so it was easy. . ’
‘Yes, that is Mr Brewis Charvill, as you have found out for me. Not many years ago, two men, employed on this duty, quarrelled
during the night, and in the morning their bodies were found stretched upon the
pavement of the yard beneath. "
"That's frank enough," the doctor admitted astonishedly. "
While making these remarks, Blueskin contrived, by means of a chisel which he
chanced to have about him, to lift up the board, and, introducing his fingers
beneath it, with Jack's assistance speedily opened it altogether, disclosing a dark
hole, into which he leapt. She knew, or guessed his mission too,
for more than once their eyes met, and she laughed mockingly at him. The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it.
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