I'll go directly.

But I look such a blackguard with this game eye!" The landlady laughed.
"You'll sune forget that whan ye see Mr Cupples." To the dismay of his nurse, Alec pulled the bandage off his eye, and amidst her expostulations caught up his book, and rushing away, bounded up the garret stairs, which ascended outside the door of the _flat_.

At the top, he found himself under the bare roof, with only boards and slates between him and the clouds.

The landing was lighted by a skylight, across which diligent and undisturbed spiders had woven their webs for years.

He stood for a moment or two, puzzled as to which door he ought to assail, for all the doors about looked like closet-doors, leading into dingy recesses.