18/30 I'll get back to London then, and trouble no one. I'm in a business .-- Ah, me! It's slack, it's slack, and times is very bad!--but I can make a shift to live by it.' 'Do you eat opium ?' 'Smokes it,' she replies with difficulty, still racked by her cough. If you don't give me three-and-sixpence, don't give me a brass farden. And if you do give me three-and-sixpence, deary, I'll tell you something.' He counts the money from his pocket, and puts it in her hand. She instantly clutches it tight, and rises to her feet with a croaking laugh of satisfaction. |