“Stay where you are for a moment,” she directed. It takes too many years to climb even a step in the social ladder. Fool that I was to part with my lantern! But I'll soon set myself straight. Following this direction, he opened a gate, and struck into one of the most beautiful green lanes imaginable; which, after various windings, conducted him into a more frequented road, and eventually brought him to the place he sought. Nothing but the publicity of the place and the recollection of that terrible constituency kept him from attempting some perfectly respectful but unmistakable evidence of his sympathy. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel, skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint George's Fields. To her consternation, the sound drew her great-aunt’s attention and she threw out a hand. He kissed her once on the lips with a passion of which, during all their days of married life, he had given no sign. Get out your pad and pencil. In vain Wood protested his innocence. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. She was a trained being—trained by an implacable mother to one end. She spied him sitting on his armless black couch, his feet splayed as he stared at his television blankly. "'The Man Who Could Not Go Home.
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