It would be nice to think there are grown-ups in the Government ready to sort out the mess for the sake of London and its people... but I'm not holding my breath.

She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.

The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.

As there was no time to lose and noticing the Granary's launch tied with a girthline to a half-buried cannon, with a killick suspended from the stern reel cable, he quickly gained the small dock, untied the line, and jumped into the little vessel, which lurched to one side like a nutshell.