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Chapter Twenty Three.
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Tells of an Unlooked-for Return, and Describes a Great Feast.
If, as we have elsewhere observed in this narrative1, time and tide wait for no man, it is not less true that time and tide work wonderful changes in man and his affairs and fortunes. Some of those changes we will now glance at, premising that seven years have passed away since the occurrence of the events recorded in our last chapter.
On the evening of a somewhat gloomy day in the month of sunny showers, four men of rough aspect, and clad in coarse but not disreputable garments, stopped in front of a public-house in one of the lowest localities of London, and looked about them. There was something quite peculiar3 in their aspect. They seemed to be filled with mingled4 curiosity and surprise, and looked somewhat scared, as a bird does when suddenly set free from its cage.
Two of the men were of an extremely low type of humanity—low-browed and scowling—and their language betokened5 that their minds were in keeping with their faces. The other two were better-looking and better-spoken, one of them having evidently been a handsome man in his day. His hair was blanched7 as white as snow although it still retained the curls of youth. His figure was much bent8, and he appeared like one who had been smitten9 with premature10 old age.
One of the others admitted that there certainly had been wonderful changes, and expressed a fear that if the change in himself was as great, his old
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