the first a strong attraction for Charlotte; and the idea

paint-stain, pitch-stain, mud-stain, or blood-stain--'

The man got no further, for Sikes with a hideous imprecation

overthrew the table, and tearing the hat from him, burst out of

With the same perversity of feeling and irresolution that had

fastened upon him, despite himself, all day, the murderer,

finding that he was not followed, and that they most probably

considered him some drunken sullen fellow, turned back up the

town, and getting out of the glare of the lamps of a stage-coach