” He relapsed into a stony silence. It was exactly as Sebastian had foreseen. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. Just as he was about to drain it, he encountered the basilisk glance of Jonathan Wild, and paused. ‘To where has he gone off?’ ‘No use asking me,’ shrugged the captain. On the same day, moreover, which, by a curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:—the cry of the populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!" The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in promises to their proselytes. I set myself to find employment. 1. Either you have had to love people or hate them—which is a sort of love, too, in its way—to get anything out of them. It was a simple wish. There one is! The same stuff still! One has a craving in one’s blood, a craving roused, cut off from its redeeming and guiding emotional side. Regardless of the risk he incurred from some heavy stone dropping on his head or feet,—regardless also of the noise made by the falling rubbish, and of the imminent danger which he consequently ran of being interrupted by some of the jailers, should the sound reach their ears, he continued to pull down large masses of the wall, which he flung upon the floor of the cell. The Wastrel, his eyes full of humorous evil, stood inside the room.
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