Page 141 (1/1)
We passed into Heathcote Street, at the end of which was an open gate giving entrance to one of those disused and rounds that are to be met with in the older districts of London; in which the dispossessed dead are jostled into corners toMany of the headstones were still standing, and others, displaced to ed around by the walls, exhibiting inscriptions h place on this suy street whence we had corass was faded and yellow and the twitter of the birds in the trees led with the hideous Board-school drawl of the children who played around the seats and the few re-place of the illustrious house of Bellinghauished people who repose in this place The daughter of no less a person than Richard Cro--but perhaps you have been here before, and know it"
"I don't think I have ever been here before; and yet there is so about the place that see my brains for the key to the dimly reminiscent sensations that the place evoked; until, suddenly, I caught sight of a group of buildings away to the west, enclosed within a wall heightened by a wooden trellis
"Yes, of course!" I exclaimed "I remember the place now I have never been in this part before, but in that enclosure beyond which opens at the end of Henrietta Street, there used to be and may be still, for all I know, a school of anatomy, at which I attended in my first year; in fact, I did ruesome appropriateness in the position of the school," reham "It would have been really convenient in the days of the resurrection men Your material would have been delivered at your very door Was it a large school?"
"The attendance varied according to the time of the year Sometimes I worked there quite alone I used to let myself in with a key and hoist my subject out of a sort of sepulchral tank by houlish business You have no idea hoful the body used to look, to my unaccustomed eyes, as it rose slowly out of the tank It was like the resurrection scenes that you see on so out of his coffin while the skeleton, Death, falls vanquished with his dart shattered and his crown toppling off