“Where have you been? All these hours I have been calling for you. ’ ‘Because I was a servant in the vicomte’s house? Things have changed. ’ *** Martha sniffed dolefully, scrubbing at her reddened eyes with a large square of damp linen. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. She felt that she was not alone. "Your worry is needless. Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage, preferred a standing to a sitting posture. “Those things are arranged more easily in any other country than England. I drew out what I had saved and boarded the first ship out. When in the plenitude of his power, he commenced a terrible trade, till then unknown—namely, a traffic in human blood. Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. "And now," she added, with somewhat more composure, "leave me, dear friends, I entreat, for a few minutes to collect my scattered thoughts—to prepare myself for what I have to go through—to pray for my son. It was his purpose to complete four or five stories before he sent any away.
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