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up between two cocks in the alley ; while his mother was preparing to clean the room . There was not a chair to sit down upon , and her appearance was more untidy than could be excusable on the busiest Saturday night .
" I should not have guessed that you lived within hearing of churchbells , " said M . " You seem to have forgotten that this is Sunday . " Mrs . Harris , with some confusion , asked him in ^ promising to arrange the room in a few minutes . M . refused , but offered to return in half an hour , when her husband might be at home , and the house and herself in better order .
M . presently met Harris in the street . He had traced his boy to his usual Sunday haunt , and was returning , angry and miserable , to tell his wife that they need not expect to see Ned for hours or perhaps days . He had joined a set of young thieves who met in a cellar near to play cards and drink spirits all the Sunday . * You have tried to bring him home , of course , " said M . " Why did you leave him ?" «* You don't know what it is , Sir , for an honest man to shew himself
among those young rogues . I once followed Ned in , and I will never go again . They would lay hold of me , and turn me out with a word from him " . " I will go , however , " said M ., " if you will shew me the way /*
" You don't know what you would be doing , Sir ; you would be in danger of your life . " " I think not , " said M . " So just turn back with me , will you ?" . Harris obeyed unwillingly , and retreated when he had pointed out the entrance to" this place of iniquity .
M . having given his name , gently pushed past the astonished proprietor , who would have opposed his proceeding . When he stood in the doorway , the sight of the squalid groups , the sound of their untamed voices , the smell
of spirits , were inexpressibly disgusting : but M . commanded his feelings and his countenance , and stood waiting till his presence was perceived . There was presently a sudden hush in the place , and then he said in a mild distinct voice , as he looked slowly round , " Edward Harris , it is you I want . "
Till he fixed his eye on a party of card-players in the furthest corner none knew to whom he spoke , for the frequenters of such places are not known by their own names . Ned himself had almost forgotten his . —He was evidently startled by M . 's appearance , and threw down his cards ; but at the instigation of one of his companions , he took them again , and held them up as a sign that he could not leave his game . "I am in no great hurry , " said M , descending the steps . ** Give me a seat , and I will wait till your hand is out . " No one offered any opposition to his seating himself on a bench in the
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738 The Early Sinning .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/14/
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