He thought her only an orphan in search of her English relatives. But I never found any truth in the saying. There were three other ships at anchor; but as two would be making Shanghai and one rounding to Singapore two days hence, it was logically certain that no fugitive would seek haven in one of these. The assemblage was for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was exhibited. The chief scene of these disgusting orgies,—the cellar, just referred to,—was a large low-roofed vault, about four feet below the level of the street, perfectly dark, unless when illumined by a roaring fire, and candles stuck in pyramidal lumps of clay, with a range of butts and barrels at one end, and benches and tables at the other, where the prisoners, debtors, and malefactors male and female, assembled as long as their money lasted, and consumed the time in drinking, smoking, and gaming with cards and dice. After several vain attempts to burst it open, he resolved, as a last alternative, to break through the wall in the part nearest to the lock. Montague Hill was taken for the millionaire once or twice, and I suppose it flattered his vanity. He swore when I tried to get it out with the ladle, and told me what it said.
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