The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 7 — page 382: what you’re looking at

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| I a eqqenpeepe era =— Nt ee nee aN RSA Ane — 2 * Sen ee SS AQ SP ees, i ee eels rym ee ee a ee |) saree een | doy features; and he exclaimed, “ I tell you what} of succeeding to the office of graré-digger THE MYATRRINS OF THE COURT. 371 CRS e ER ee See elY Pa GES nei eles LA PE Aly (PRR A ost oa aks ASD, sariapetyaurtity it 1s, my pid friend—I know I’m not so ‘anaome | (Jonsihan's} death. The Burker accepted the as soine people is; but I’m a deuced sight batter: | proffered terme; and the bargain wes sealed with for try me at hard work, or question me as to wy | another drain from the brandy. flask, morals, or anythink of that sort, and you'll just; “And now, my good man,” eaid Jo tha, * as sec what an admirable feller I am.” you are doubtless weary and hungered, t will take “TI was not thinking of your personal appear | you to my cuttage where you can rofresh and re ance,” replied the old sexton; “ but I wish you | pase yourself for to-night; and to-morrow I cay would geb off thet coffia and go and sit down; perhaps holp you to a cheap ledging with some upon the steps,” | humble bus respectable people." “To be eure!” exclaimed the Burker, obeying; “I’ve already took auch ap affection for you, with alacrity : aud then bethinking himeelf of the | air,” answered the Burker, “that if you've only sexton'e brandy-flash, he gave visible shudder,— | got some old shed or out-house belonging bo your observing, “It's uncummon cold notwithstanding | place, I would make myself as happy and comfort- the season of the year,” | able asa king. I oould turn my hand to « thou- “Refreah yourself,” said Jonathan; asd ho | send little odd jobe——" handed the fiask. “Woill, well, we shall sae about it,” replied tho “Your wery good health, eir—and hore’a wish. / sexton. “ Meantime follow mo.” ® ing youa lung iife and a merry von,” said Mr.} They issued from the vault, and passed out of Burnes, by way of complimeutary preface to af the ehurch,—Junadhan having previsusly extin- somewhat prolonged application to the cuntents of | guished bia lantern. Hoe locked the dour with s the flnske ° ‘huge keys and atriking into a Harrow path, | “A merry life!” exclaimed old Jonathan: ‘the way through the churebyand, The Burker en | “how oan you talk in such a hgbt strain? What: waa nat particular in keeping to the path; but he’ can the merriment be fur one whe bas all ins days now and then trampled over the grares,—whic been accustomed to dwell amonget the dead, so bung presently perceived by the old man, caused that the gloom of vaults and sepulohres and the i him suddenly to atep sbort. damp of graven have become habtunl te hin P|) “You waet vot set foot upon any one of these But you were saying just now that you were the | sacred billocks,” ho aad, with bie wonted gravity man who would become my assistont " “and for gwo reasons, In the first plaeo boranso “And an uneormnon handy felier you'll find | it's desecration; and iu the sevond plave bocauae me, Lean tell you,” rejoined the Burker. “But there are certain familea-—aye, oven amongst how 19 it 1] find souidn this hero place at snel au: the poorest -who pay oa trifle annually to have the hour of the night? I don't say it isn’t agrveable , graves of their deevaned relatives kept in geod cnough——I hke i uncommon—it’s quite a change . order———Not but tuat J devote my gare ty those —and wariety ie charming.” for which no feo uw paid» Aud here, for ite “This vault,” onawered old Jonathan scleronly, | stance,” added the ald man, again stopping sort “belongs to tho Keatherstines of Foatherstune after having slowly walked on a faw paces, “here Holl, Tha very old farily-.at a all these coflina a9 the best kept grave in the whole place: and yet that you see arcund, contain seins of thatrace.' I have never received a farthing for et!ending Anctber—a prowiming youny man as ever yuu: to it.” eonld wish to see ~ched a few days ago; and he| Ho pointed to a grave which had a atone at —_ eS ee ee ate SF alate ogra a as ies, esa ange ‘ 1 eet =" 2 Ae abe eee ot tee ee will be buried hers to-morrow. There waa ea mar- (ite head; and in tho beaut clearnoss of tho | riaye iw the church this morning—and I ovuld | night, 16 waa easy for the Murker to perecive that nut fin thin my heart to raise the stone of this (1 was indeed well kept, —the (uct being all emooth vault til the evemag-—” over the hillock, and Lgambles stretehed acruan to “ And you don't wean tu say you did it by your... provent fimy iutrugive shecp trom nibbling at the . self?” caclaimed the Burker. ware oe “No FE had an assistant in the task,” rejuited | “Sook! You perceive there is no name upor Jonathan: “but the instant it waa over, he hurried that stone," sai the sexton,--“ nothing but the utay, Imghtened at the gluom of the buiidiag {dare of tir decuased’s death Octubar, 1831," when ones the dusk had set in. Yousoe that J “Aul why wu theres no paweF”’ oaked the am not frghteneds [ came and sate myself down , Burkgr. bere to determine where the cuflin should be put” “Because the name which the poor deconsed to werrew—and now you kuow bow at isthat lady posaceed, wos never kavwn,” repliod Jonathan you find me in such a place at such an hour.” Carnabe. “bhe waa a stranger—and shu died “Jf T was your aasistant,” rewarked the Burker, mad——— t+, if waa a deup, silent, brooding wad- “instead of running away the mouent work was. nosr———Dut itis a gad tale, and f cannot toil it over, § should hke t eutme down suite these hers you nos. places apd have a ebat ~more partikler when OWho diel mad P who died in the midlet of a there’e the brandy-flask ta keep the cold out of , deep, brooding madness P” exclansed a wild vote ane'e throat.” ieuddenty breaking in upon the momentary sleuee, Jonathan Carnabie deliberated with himself for: which followed the old sexton’s remark ; and at tho » few minutes; and having decided upon engaging sary tims a fcmele, having the appearance of a the serviccssof the man who hed sv singularly craze! gipsy, appeared upon the apet as if ehe “eff red larnself, he proceeded to specify the daties bad ausen gut of the earth or sprung up from be- wineh an assistant weuld have to perform, as well land gue of the adjacent tumbstoves, =“ Who diad ae the presest emoluments which he would receive, mai, I ask youl” she repeated vobhomently. —udbecrving ae 60 additional inducewont, that if, “Tucre are indeed surrows iu this world sufficlent | Baruny eoaducted himself well he might be certain ‘to turn the Strongest brain ~and 1 have seea those ' 6 td ao ote ECONNIC I OOO© SS CO