She turned and looked at the red LED of the alarm clock that read 3:55. Spurling, formerly, it may be remembered, the hostess of the Dark House at Queenhithe,—whence wine, ale, and brandy of inferior quality were dispensed, in false measures, and at high prices, throughout the prison, which in noise and debauchery rivalled, if it did not surpass, the lowest tavern. Yet her embarrassment was only a passing thing. Anna stared back at every one with undaunted composure. " Himself. ” “The posters at least,” Anna answered quietly, “I have some claim to. It is no good going into that. I wouldn't keep an apprentice to set my authority at defiance. If she had once known him, if he were some former neighbour, it would be comprehensible. " He sent the doctor a sly glance. He became ugly and monstrous, dunning her, threatening her, assailing her. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. It was the same smell that she had in his memory, but now it was definite, palpable, like a perfume.
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