When I lie awake, I can sometimes hear strange shrieks and cries fromdistant parts of this large place.
The street is broad, the shops are spacious, the noise ofpassing vehicles, the footsteps of a perpetual stream of people--allthe busy sounds of traffic, resound in it from morn to midnight; but thestreets around are mean and close; poverty and debauchery lie festeringin the crowded alleys; want and misfortune are pent up in the narrowprison; an air of gloom and dreariness seems, in my eyes at least, tohang about the scene, and to impart to it a squalid and sickly hue.
By way of adding force tothe command, he thrust the brass emblem of royalty into Sam's neckclothwith one hand, and seized Sam's collar with the other--a complimentwhich Mr. Weller returned by knocking him down out of hand, havingpreviously with the utmost consideration, knocked down a chairman forhim to lie upon.
Took a boy's leg out of the socket lastweek--boy ate five apples and a gingerbread cake--exactly two minutesafter it was all over, boy said he wouldn't lie there to be made gameof, and he'd tell his mother if they didn't begin.
Mr. Tuckle no sooner got into the openair, than he was seized with a sudden desire to lie on the curbstone;Sam thought it would be a pity to contradict him, and so let him havehis own way.
Friends to see me! My God! I have sunk,from the prime of life into old age, in this place, and there is not oneto raise his hand above my bed when I lie dead upon it, and say, "It isa blessing he is gone!"'The excitement, which had cast an unwonted light over the man's face,while he spoke, subsided as he concluded; and pressing his witheredhands together in a hasty and disordered manner, he shuffled from theroom.
I heard some rumour that lie had begun to revive a little at theend of the exile; but when he came back to his own home he relapsedcompletely.
And lie walkedpast her without a word or a glance, as if she had been a stone.