It's
of no use doing things by halves, and as long as I stop here, I'll take
good care of you. When I'm off you may say what you please. But it's
a d--d strange thing,' he added, pushing away his untouched plate, and
striding moodily to and fro, 'that his drivellings should have taken
this turn just now.'
After pacing the little room from end to end several times, he sat down
in another chair.
'I say just now, but for anything I know, he may have been carrying on
the same game all along. Old dog! He shall be gagged!'
He paced the room again in the same restless and unsteady way; and then
sat down upon the bedstead, leaning his chin upon his hand, and looking
at the table. When he had looked at it for a long time, he remembered
his supper; and resuming the chair he had first occupied, began to eat
with great rapacity; not like a hungry man, but as if he were determined
to do it. He drank too, roundly; sometimes stopping in the middle of a
draught to walk, and change his seat and walk again, and dart back to
the table and fall to, in a ravenous hurry, as before.
It was now growing dark.
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