Of course, it isn't everybody can do it.' The remark indicated his belief that he knew one man not incapable of leading functions.
'And would they pay you ?' Emma inquired, simply.
'Expenses of that kind are inevitable,' he replied.
Issuing into the New North Road, where there were still many people hastening one way and the other, they turned to the left, crossed the canal--black and silent--and were soon among narrow streets.

Every corner brought a whiff of some rank odour, which stole from closed shops and warehouses, and hung heavily on the still air.

The public-houses had just extinguished their lights, and in the neighbourhood of each was a cluster of lingering men and women, merry or disputatious.

Mid-Easter was inviting repose and festivity; to-morrow would see culmination of riot, and after that it would only depend upon pecuniary resources how long the muddled interval between holiday and renewed labour should drag itself out.
The end of their walk was the entrance to a narrow passage, which, at a few yards' distance, widened itself and became a street of four-storeyed houses.

At present this could not be discerned; the passage was a mere opening into massive darkness.