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When she has put them to bed, her day's occupation is gone; and she is
utterly lonely all night, and sad, and waiting for him.
Oh, for shame! Oh, for shame! Go home, thou idle tippler.
How Sackville lost his health: how he lost his business; how he got
into scrapes; how he got into debt; how he became a railroad director;
how the Pimlico house was shut up; how he went to Boulogne,--all this
I could tell, only I am too much ashamed of my part of the transaction.
They returned to England, because, to the surprise of everybody, Mrs.
Chuff came down with a great sum of money (which nobody knew she had
saved), and paid his liabilities. He is in England; but at Kennington.
His name is taken off the books of the 'Sarcophagus' long ago. When we
meet, he crosses over to the other side of the street; I don't call, as
I should be sorry to see a look of reproach or sadness in Laura's sweet
face.
Not, however, all evil, as I am proud to think, has been the influence
of the Snob of England upon Clubs in general:--Captain Shindy is afraid
to bully the waiters any more, and eats his mutton-chop without moving
Acheron. Gobemouche does not take more than two papers at a time for
his private reading. Tiggs does not ring the bell and cause the
library-waiter to walk about a quarter of a mile in order to give him
Vol. II., which lies on the next table.
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