Chapter Seventeen
c of t me, more t seemed to me t everyt rigo be Lant Street, on finding a la all t I could make no on little diso try and tempt -puddings. Once I took remember time s me in old me about Nancy from Oliver t. I dont took it and set it distractedly aside, saying sry it later, like sold me to save my money. So them.
Many times simes so speak on some ater; but al t, surn tter aside and it . If t roubled by queer ideas, and doubts—I kept quiet as s time alked instead of me—of ure.
Youll keep up t Lant Street? shed say.
ont I! Id answer.
You think of leaving?
Leaving? o keep it ready, against t you out. . .
I did not tell ser, tell neig off calling; t a girl tone at me; t people—strangers—and, for a time, at tleman say y, to take tain from ts of er up, because tant scrubbing began to lift turn the pale
tell ures on ts upon tel, tes, t reaks and splaslemans blood.
And I did not say and scrubbed tctle reminders of my old life—dog-s on to mark my as I gre every one.
At nig, I dreamed of murder. I dreamed I killed a man, and o reets of London oo small to . I dreamed of Gentleman. I dreamed I met ttle red c Briar and omb of omb , and I cut to fit; and every nig to ime, just as t done, some queer disaster en in my fingers; t—t—I could not make, never make in time . . .
too late, Gentleman would say.
One time the voice was Mauds.
too late.
I looked, but could not see her.
I