The Hole in the Wall
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Morrison Arthur. The Hole in the Wall
CHAPTER I. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER II. IN BLUE GATE
CHAPTER III. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER IV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER V. IN THE HIGHWAY
CHAPTER VI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER VII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER VIII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER IX. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER X. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XII. IN THE CLUB-ROOM
CHAPTER XIII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XIV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XVI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XVII. IN BLUE GATE
CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XIX. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XX. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE BAR-PARLOUR
CHAPTER XXII. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XXIII. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XXIV. ON THE COP
CHAPTER XXV. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXVI. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXVII. IN THE BAR-PARLOUR
CHAPTER XXVIII. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXIX. STEPHEN'S TALE
CHAPTER XXX. STEPHEN'S TALE
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While his mother's relations walked out of Stephen's tale, and left his grandfather in it, the tales of all the world went on, each man hero in his own.
Viney and Marr were owners of the brig Juno, away in tropic seas, with Stephen's father chief mate; and at this time the tale of Viney and Marr had just divided into two, inasmuch as the partners were separated and the firm was at a crisis – the crisis responsible for the withholding of Mrs. Kemp's half-pay. No legal form had dissolved the firm, indeed, and scarce half a mile of streets lay between the two men; but in truth Marr had left his partner with uncommon secrecy and expedition, carrying with him all the loose cash he could get together; and a man need travel a very little way to hide in London. So it was that Mr. Viney, left alone to bear the firm's burdens, was loafing, sometimes about his house in Commercial Road, Stepney, sometimes in the back streets and small public-houses hard by; pondering, no doubt, the matter contained in a paper that had that afternoon stricken the colour from the face of one Crooks, ship-chandler, of Shadwell, and had hardly less disquieted others in related trades. While Marr, for the few days since his flight no more dressed like the business partner in a shipowning concern, nor even like a clerk, but in serge and anklejacks, like a foremast hand, was playing up to his borrowed character by being drunk in Blue Gate.
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"Eh?" ejaculated the fiddler. "Eh? I ain't goin'! Didn't the genelman ask me to come along? Come, I'll give y' a toon. I'll give y' a chant as 'll make yer 'air curl!"
"Take your drink, George," Dan insisted, "we don't want our 'air curled."
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