The String of Pearls (1850), p. 475
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The String of Pearls (1850), p. 475
"Ah, grin on, grin on, fiend&£8212;your hours from now shall be numbered. You shall hang, hang, and I shall hope to see you in your last agony. If any bribe can induce the hangman, by some common bungling to protract your pain, he has but to name his price and he shall have it." | THE STR IN G OF P E ARLS, _ 475_ " Ah, grin on, grin on, fiend — your hours from now shall be numbered. I Mrs. Lovett rose up from among the straw with a shudder. The immersion " Never mind J" she said. " Never mind 1 What care 1 so that I complete The coach stopped at the corner of Bell-yard. " That will do/' said Mrs. Lovett as she pulled the check-string. "That She paid the coachman double the amount of his fare, so he only muttered a | With quite a staggering step, for Mrs. Lovett was anything but well, she i Mrs. Lovett opened the door, just as the titillating contents of the bottle " Wretch!" exclaimed Mrs. Lovett. Down fell the bottle, and smashed into many fragments on the floor of the ° So," cried Mrs. Lovett, "this is the way you employ your time is it, while « T — T — Tood," stuttered the woman, " T— T— Todd is such a nice man/ " Todd, do you say ?" « Yes— I — I say — T— Todd is a nice man." " Answer me, wretch, instantly. Has he been here ? Speak, or I will shake Mrs. Lovett suited the action to the word, and the word to the action, for W D—D— Don't Mrs. L.— I— will— tell all— all. I will indeed." " Speak then. Has Todd been here?" " In course, and quite a nice man— I- I may say— quite a gin— I mean a Mrs. Lovett paced the shop for a few moments in an agony of rage. Todd " The wretch !" she said. " He thought to find enough no doubt to reward The lady with the partiality for gin, now seemed to be lapsing into a state of "Tell me/' she said, "when did this man come, and what did he say to "Gin! 5 ' ' " I ask you what Todd said to you ¥' |