The Jewel Casket

The Jewel Casket
The Kitchen Maid
The Lady of Shalott
¡¡¡¡ "Hear, hear," said the populace. ¡¡¡¡ "Well preached!" said Tinker Taylor. And privately to his neighbours: "Why, one of them jobbing pa'sons swarming about here, that takes the services when our head reverends want a holiday, wouldn't ha' discoursed such doctrine for less than a guinea down? Hey? I'll take my oath not one o' 'em would! And then he must have had it wrote down for 'n. And this only a working-man!" ¡¡¡¡ As a sort of objective commentary on Jude's remarks there drove up at this moment with a belated doctor, robed and panting, a cab whose horse failed to stop at the exact point required for setting down the hirer, who jumped out and entered the door. The driver, alighting, began to kick the animal in the belly. ¡¡¡¡ "If that can be done," said Jude, "at college gates in the most religious and educational city in the world, what shall we say as to how far we've got?"