The Major had told me not to speak of this, according to wise experience; and I had not the smallest intention of doing an atom of mischief in that way; but somehow or other it came out one night when I was being pitied for my desolation.

And all the charges against me began to be doubled from that moment.
If this had been all, I should not have cared so much, being quite content that my money should go as fast as it came in to me.

But there was another thing here which cost me as much as my board and lodgings and all the rest of my expenses.

And that was the iron pump in European Square.

For this pump stood in the very centre of a huddled district of famine, filth, and fever.