The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 361: what you’re looking at

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332 REYNOLDS’ WORKS its contents altogether, or at least as much of them as he could secure for his own special behoof. The Burker made a sign for him to be sparing with the provisions, but the gossoon pointed confidently in the direction of the town, as much as to imply that they could obtain an ample re- plenishment there. The Burker was well pleased with this tacit but perfectly intelligible announcement, and giving the rein to his appetite, he ate without further parsi- mony in respect to the provender. The wallet was thus completely emptied. The gossoon now began making signs to intimate that the Burker should become his companion, a proposition which the ruffian received with so much veritable joy that it betrayed to the dervish his consciousness of how helpless he would be if left to himself. Thereupon the gossoon nodded in a patronizing manner, and seemed to be seeking to give him to understand that he would take him under his protection. But snatching up the Burker’s cudgel, he hurled it to a distance, and then he made signs to show that he considered himself and the Englishman to be upon equal terms. The Burker growlingly muttered an impre- cation, but remembering the evidence of superior strength which the gossoon had given him at the cave, he thought it better to submit to these terms of equality on which the incident had just placed them. The gossoon now rose and pointed toward the town; the Burker, likewise rising to his feet, prepared to accom- pany him. They journeyed on in silence, and the English- man had thus ample leisure to give free scope to his reflec- tions. Comparatively a few hours had sufficed to bring him from the cave to the extremity of the jungle, but on the former occasion of his endeavour to find an issue from the wilderness he had taken another direction, and had thus only floundered farther and farther into its depths. Whether he was still in the kingdom of Inderabad, he knew not, but he was very certain that when first entering the jungle, after his flight from imprisonment in the capital city of that kingdom, he had not passed through the region where he now found himself. When in the jungle, and exposed to all its horrors, he would cheerfully have fallen in with any of Queen Indora’s emissaries who might have been sent in pursuit of him, but now that he was clear beyond EoOmicsooks (E(©)