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These
gentlemen
being
rejected
after
twenty
-
four
hours
’
pleasantry
,
Mr
Brass
consented
to
remain
,
and
did
remain
,
until
a
club
of
choice
spirits
called
a
Grand
Jury
(
who
were
in
the
joke
)
summoned
him
to
a
trial
before
twelve
other
wags
for
perjury
and
fraud
,
who
in
their
turn
found
him
guilty
with
a
most
facetious
joy
,
—
nay
,
the
very
populace
entered
into
the
whim
,
and
when
Mr
Brass
was
moving
in
a
hackney
-
coach
towards
the
building
where
these
wags
assembled
,
saluted
him
with
rotten
eggs
and
carcases
of
kittens
,
and
feigned
to
wish
to
tear
him
into
shreds
,
which
greatly
increased
the
comicality
of
the
thing
,
and
made
him
relish
it
the
more
,
no
doubt
.
To
work
this
sportive
vein
still
further
,
Mr
Brass
,
by
his
counsel
,
moved
in
arrest
of
judgment
that
he
had
been
led
to
criminate
himself
,
by
assurances
of
safety
and
promises
of
pardon
,
and
claimed
the
leniency
which
the
law
extends
to
such
confiding
natures
as
are
thus
deluded
.
After
solemn
argument
,
this
point
(
with
others
of
a
technical
nature
,
whose
humorous
extravagance
it
would
be
difficult
to
exaggerate
)
was
referred
to
the
judges
for
their
decision
,
Sampson
being
meantime
removed
to
his
former
quarters
.
Finally
,
some
of
the
points
were
given
in
Sampson
’
s
favour
,
and
some
against
him
;
and
the
upshot
was
,
that
,
instead
of
being
desired
to
travel
for
a
time
in
foreign
parts
,
he
was
permitted
to
grace
the
mother
country
under
certain
insignificant
restrictions
.
These
were
,
that
he
should
,
for
a
term
of
years
,
reside
in
a
spacious
mansion
where
several
other
gentlemen
were
lodged
and
boarded
at
the
public
charge
,
who
went
clad
in
a
sober
uniform
of
grey
turned
up
with
yellow
,
had
their
hair
cut
extremely
short
,
and
chiefly
lived
on
gruel
and
light
soup
.
It
was
also
required
of
him
that
he
should
partake
of
their
exercise
of
constantly
ascending
an
endless
flight
of
stairs
;
and
,
lest
his
legs
,
unused
to
such
exertion
,
should
be
weakened
by
it
,
that
he
should
wear
upon
one
ankle
an
amulet
or
charm
of
iron
.
These
conditions
being
arranged
,
he
was
removed
one
evening
to
his
new
abode
,
and
enjoyed
,
in
common
with
nine
other
gentlemen
,
and
two
ladies
,
the
privilege
of
being
taken
to
his
place
of
retirement
in
one
of
Royalty
’
s
own
carriages
.
Over
and
above
these
trifling
penalties
,
his
name
was
erased
and
blotted
out
from
the
roll
of
attorneys
;
which
erasure
has
been
always
held
in
these
latter
times
to
be
a
great
degradation
and
reproach
,
and
to
imply
the
commission
of
some
amazing
villany
—
as
indeed
it
would
seem
to
be
the
case
,
when
so
many
worthless
names
remain
among
its
better
records
,
unmolested
.
Of
Sally
Brass
,
conflicting
rumours
went
abroad
.
Some
said
with
confidence
that
she
had
gone
down
to
the
docks
in
male
attire
,
and
had
become
a
female
sailor
;
others
darkly
whispered
that
she
had
enlisted
as
a
private
in
the
second
regiment
of
Foot
Guards
,
and
had
been
seen
in
uniform
,
and
on
duty
,
to
wit
,
leaning
on
her
musket
and
looking
out
of
a
sentry
-
box
in
St
James
’
s
Park
,
one
evening
.
There
were
many
such
whispers
as
these
in
circulation
;
but
the
truth
appears
to
be
that
,
after
the
lapse
of
some
five
years
(
during
which
there
is
no
direct
evidence
of
her
having
been
seen
at
all
)
,
two
wretched
people
were
more
than
once
observed
to
crawl
at
dusk
from
the
inmost
recesses
of
St
Giles
’
s
,
and
to
take
their
way
along
the
streets
,
with
shuffling
steps
and
cowering
shivering
forms
,
looking
into
the
roads
and
kennels
as
they
went
in
search
of
refuse
food
or
disregarded
offal
.
These
forms
were
never
beheld
but
in
those
nights
of
cold
and
gloom
,
when
the
terrible
spectres
,
who
lie
at
all
other
times
in
the
obscene
hiding
-
places
of
London
,
in
archways
,
dark
vaults
and
cellars
,
venture
to
creep
into
the
streets
;
the
embodied
spirits
of
Disease
,
and
Vice
,
and
Famine
.
It
was
whispered
by
those
who
should
have
known
,
that
these
were
Sampson
and
his
sister
Sally
;
and
to
this
day
,
it
is
said
,
they
sometimes
pass
,
on
bad
nights
,
in
the
same
loathsome
guise
,
close
at
the
elbow
of
the
shrinking
passenger
.
The
body
of
Quilp
being
found
—
though
not
until
some
days
had
elapsed
—
an
inquest
was
held
on
it
near
the
spot
where
it
had
been
washed
ashore
.
The
general
supposition
was
that
he
had
committed
suicide
,
and
,
this
appearing
to
be
favoured
by
all
the
circumstances
of
his
death
,
the
verdict
was
to
that
effect
.
He
was
left
to
be
buried
with
a
stake
through
his
heart
in
the
centre
of
four
lonely
roads
.
It
was
rumoured
afterwards
that
this
horrible
and
barbarous
ceremony
had
been
dispensed
with
,
and
that
the
remains
had
been
secretly
given
up
to
Tom
Scott
.
But
even
here
,
opinion
was
divided
;
for
some
said
Tom
dug
them
up
at
midnight
,
and
carried
them
to
a
place
indicated
to
him
by
the
widow
.
It
is
probable
that
both
these
stories
may
have
had
their
origin
in
the
simple
fact
of
Tom
’
s
shedding
tears
upon
the
inquest
—
which
he
certainly
did
,
extraordinary
as
it
may
appear
.
He
manifested
,
besides
,
a
strong
desire
to
assault
the
jury
;
and
being
restrained
and
conducted
out
of
court
,
darkened
its
only
window
by
standing
on
his
head
upon
the
sill
,
until
he
was
dexterously
tilted
upon
his
feet
again
by
a
cautious
beadle
.
Being
cast
upon
the
world
by
his
master
’
s
death
,
he
determined
to
go
through
it
upon
his
head
and
hands
,
and
accordingly
began
to
tumble
for
his
bread
.
Finding
,
however
,
his
English
birth
an
insurmountable
obstacle
to
his
advancement
in
this
pursuit
(
notwithstanding
that
his
art
was
in
high
repute
and
favour
)
,
he
assumed
the
name
of
an
Italian
image
lad
,
with
whom
he
had
become
acquainted
;
and
afterwards
tumbled
with
extraordinary
success
,
and
to
overflowing
audiences
.
