The first Step towards the Ladder VII. He ventured to the great gates, and by inserting his gimblets into the wood at intervals, so as to form points upon which he could rest his foot, he contrived, to ascend them; and when at the top, having fastened a portion of his dress to the spikes, he managed, not without considerable risk, to draw up his female companion. Sebastian howled with laughter, doubling over. Well-balanced, sane, wasn’t I? You never heard anyone call me a madman? I’m pretty near being one now, and it’s her fault. “H’m!” he said, regarding the wreckage with a calmer visage. E. “Will you be moral and your species, or immoral and yourself? We’ve decided to be immoral. And then she came out into the street, sure only of one thing—that she could not return directly to her lodgings. Think—think of that engagement!” Their talk had come to eloquent silences that contradicted all he had to say. She went on from street to street, and all the glory of London had departed. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. Besides, it was under false pretences. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. They heard his footsteps descending the stone staircase, growing fainter and fainter.
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