His clothes were smartly pressed, his linen white, his jaws cleanly shaven; but the day would come when he would grow indifferent to bodily cleanliness. From the portals of the hotel—scarcely fifty yards from the canal—one saw the blank face of the ancient city of Canton. 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. He saw the tragedy on the boy's face; but he was merciless. All at once Melusine remembered Pottiswick, and the errand he had run. “You are their friend, then?” “I am,” Courtlaw answered. "There won't be much left for you," he said. What an adventure! Of course, you'll bark your shins here and there and hit your funnybone; but the newness of everything will be something of a compensation. So, bloody but unbeaten, weak and spent but undaunted, he waited for the Wastrel to spring up. He patted the hand on his sleeve. Some years ago, in 1715, just before the Rebellion, I was rash enough to league myself with the Jacobite party, and by Wild's machinations got clapped into Newgate, whence I was glad to escape with my head upon my shoulders. I know who she is, and I know that she has been cheated somehow by the people calling themselves Valade.
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