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The tea things had been cleared away, and Marshall was s Both

he and Dennis were Chartists, and Baruch had interrupted a debate

upon a speech delivered at a Chartistby Henry

Vincent

Frederick Dennis was about thirty, tall and rather loose-limbed He

wore loose clothes, his neck-cloth was tied in a big, loose knot, his

feet were large and his boots were heavy His face was quite sht brown, fell across his

forehead in a heavy ith just two co at the side to the opposite ear It had a trick of

tuers were continually passed

through it to brush it away He was a wood engraver, or, as he

preferred to call himself, an artist, but he also wrote for the

newspapers, and had been a contributor to the Northern Star He was

well brought up and was intended for the University, but he did not

stick to his Latin and Greek, and as he showed so he was permitted to follow his bent His work, however, was

not of first-rate quality, and consequently orders were not abundant

This was the reason why he had turned to literature When he had any

books to illustrate he lived upon what they brought him, and when

there were no books he renewed his acquaintance with politics If

books and newspapers both failed, he subsisted on a littleas he could, and